Zoe zoecomnena@yahoo.com writes:
What space are they wasting?
Have you looked at RecentChanges recently?
What things would be in that space if Ram-Man's articles weren't there? Why does it bother you so much?
Because they're not encyclopedia articles, they're distorting the article counts and, as anyone who's hit RandomPage recently will tell you, they're giving a skewed view of the project to anyone who's looking at it.
All this information is already available online from the correct places -- US census dept et al. Being informations does not make it worthwhile information. There is little encyclopedic worth in knowing the elevation above sealevel of Shithole, Indiana.
If you want wikiatlas.org or wikicensus.org, or wikidomesdaybook.org, I recommend buying the domain name and setting the damn thing up. And I thought -- after discussion about The Jargon File, the Catholic Encyclopia and Britannica PD -- that we didn't want datadumps. Its the sellout of quality to quantity, with seemingly no human editing.
On top of that, its slowing down responses and is contributing to the overloading of the server.