"Having said the idea that "anybody is allowed to put whatever trash they
want to" in, is completely false and you know it.". Exactly. Because of those
of us who feel the need to use the VfD page and its functionality, not because of those
who feel that it's perfectly all right to leave garbage lying around for whenever
somebody might, sometime, in the unknown future, decide that something needs to be done
about it.
So, what happens when you search for "George Washington" and "George
Washington's underwear" shows up?
RickK
Pete/Pcb21 <pete_pcb21_wpmail(a)pcbartlett.com> wrote:
Rick wrote:
I've never understood the mentality that it's
okay to keep trash
articles around for some unknown period of time. Months, now?! Do
you not understand what it says about Wikipedia when Google and
Yahoo! mirror all of the crap and that's the face that Wikipedia
presents to the world? How are we supposed to maintain even the idea
that we're creating a real, useable encyclopedia if anybody is
allowed to put whatever trash they want to put into it and nobody
seems to be the least motivated to clean it up?
How does having articles of borderline interest make it unusable?
If I type "George Washington" into Google and end up at the excellent
Wikipedia article of the same name, Wikipedia has proved very usuable.
It is completely irrelevant whether a borderline article such as "George
from Rainbow" is also available *for those who search for it*
Having said the idea that "anybody is allowed to put whatever trash they
want to" in, is completely false and you know it.
Pete/Pcb21
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