I just redeleted it. really, that's /not/ an article. I'm not suggesting that we keep gibberish, and I don't think anyone else is either (except, I guess, whoever requested it be restored. And I would like to hear why it was requested restored; I must have missed something).
kq
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'Kate Hudson' has no content. The previous version of it says 'hubba hubba hubba', and the history says it was deleted and restored by request. That is NOT an article. That is not even a pretense at an article. That is a piece of stupidity that deserves oblivion. Why on EARTH did someone request that that should be put back?
Gibberish is not an article. Blank pages are not an article. And nonsense phrases posted by a casual passerby are not an article. They just take up space that a real article could use. If it was a real article it would say something like 'Kate Hudson is (blah blah blah)'. Leaving this doesn't encourage the writer to make real contributions - if anything it encourages them to leave more nonsense to clutter up the space!
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I just redeleted it. really, that's /not/ an article. I'm not suggesting that we keep gibberish, and I don't think anyone else is either (except, I guess, whoever requested it be restored. And I would like to hear why it was requested restored; I must have missed something).
On my personal page, I found the following text:
Dr. Engels: please review the criteria for deletion; namely the policy of not deleting page titles that may become valid entries. If you disagree with the policy, you should change the stated policy instead of violating it. Note that the current policy is the result of discussion of various points (some of which may have changed, because they were based partially on features of the software which may have changed). That is not to say that it can't be changed, but that there was serious consideration in coming up with the policy.
I give in that it does not exactly ask for restoring it, it does however explicitly ask for not deleting it.
Andre Engels
That's true; the policy does say that. However, I now disagree with that particular part of the policy, and so do many other people.
What we have to keep in mind is that Wikipedia policy is not iron-clad law. It is determined by us Wikipedians as we go about creating the encyclopedia. If a policy is becoming a hinderance, it's time to change it.
Stephen G.
--- Andre Engels engels@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
I just redeleted it. really, that's /not/ an
article. I'm not suggesting
that we keep gibberish, and I don't think anyone
else is either (except, I
guess, whoever requested it be restored. And I
would like to hear why it
was requested restored; I must have missed
something).
On my personal page, I found the following text:
Dr. Engels: please review the criteria for deletion; namely the policy of not deleting page titles that may become valid entries. If you disagree with the policy, you should change the stated policy instead of violating it. Note that the current policy is the result of discussion of various points (some of which may have changed, because they were based partially on features of the software which may have changed). That is not to say that it can't be changed, but that there was serious consideration in coming up with the policy.
I give in that it does not exactly ask for restoring it, it does however explicitly ask for not deleting it.
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