[WikiEN-l] Partial solution to rampant deletionism

[The Cunctator]

> From: Andre Engels
> 
> "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com> schrieb:
> 
> > You're making the argument that since someday, some lonely person
> > might have enough freetime to waste typing in thousands and
thousands
> > of entries in the manner of a robot, we have to delete any and every
> > article that's too trivial today.
> >
> > I think that are some missing steps in that deduction, so that the
> > conclusion does not follow from the premises.
> 
> I'll add the missing steps:
> 
> Either these articles are having a positive effect on Wikipedia, and
then
> we should allow this hypothetical person or a bot, not ban them. Or
these
> articles are having a negative effect on Wikipedia, and then it's good
> thing to delete them.

I believe you mean to use the conditional tense ("Either these articles
would have a positive effect..."), not the present tense.

Those steps still do not connect the hypothetical thousands of
mass-imported entries to actual "trivial" entries.