Users here complain about the cruft being every pokeman card having its own page, but there's a lot of nonencylopediac cruft on Wikipedia, and things like this deleted page are a major part of it, imo. There are users who join to create cruft like this, and don't user page also show up in search engine results? I think Wikipedia is overly lax on crap pages created by users, what encyclopediac purpose do pages of this sort serve? They really weren't even that funny, and there's never been an original one.
KP
On 6/2/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
Users here complain about the cruft being every pokeman card having its own page, but there's a lot of nonencylopediac cruft on Wikipedia, and things like this deleted page are a major part of it, imo. There are users who join to create cruft like this, and don't user page also show up in search engine results? I think Wikipedia is overly lax on crap pages created by users, what encyclopediac purpose do pages of this sort serve? They really weren't even that funny, and there's never been an original one.
KP
Community building. I remember after [[Wikipedia:Esperanza]] got deleted, I almost left Wikipedia. It's the stuff that keeps some people coming back and contributing. After all, it is a volunteer organization.
(Actually, Esperanza was the reason I really got started on Wikipedia, but that's another story.) ~~~~
K P wrote:
Users here complain about the cruft being every pokeman card having its own page, but there's a lot of nonencylopediac cruft on Wikipedia, and things like this deleted page are a major part of it, imo. There are users who join to create cruft like this, and don't user page also show up in search engine results? I think Wikipedia is overly lax on crap pages created by users, what encyclopediac purpose do pages of this sort serve? They really weren't even that funny, and there's never been an original one.
I don't dispute the cruftiness of these pages. At the same time I don't arrogate upon myself the ability to distinguish which are cruft and which are not. The details on some of these (as I've remarked when deleting spoiler warnings) are more than the average cruftophiles could ever dream for. I'm sure that helps to draw people interested in that kind of thing. My attitude toward cruft is best expressed by not gratuitously visiting such pages. Then someone mounts a high horse, and charges straight ahead like an overarmoured medieval heavy cavalryman, and I have to pay attention to the swath he cuts.
Ec