Jimmy Wales wrote:
I strongly disagree with that; eventually producing a good encyclopedia ought to take precedence over immediately gaining good PR (or avoiding bad PR).
Eventually producing a good encyclopedia is _exactly_ what I'm talking about. That's why it's better to delete crap than keep it. Having tons and tons of junk articles does not help us create a good quality encyclopedia; it encourages more of the same.
It rather depends on what you mean by 'crap' and 'junk articles', I think. Some clarification of this would be appreciated.
Personally I think that, for any topic, a one-line stub is better than no article at all (and this is certainly the position adopted by [[Wikipedia:Replies to common objections]], a 'party line' I have been toeing at info-en@ correspondents for some time).
Cheers,
N.