[WikiEN-l] Partial solution to rampant deletionism

[Bjorn Lindqvist]

Delirium wrote:
 
> Ah, but it has happened: a group of people have decided to add literally 
> hundreds of pages on victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.  My worry is that 
> if we allow this, there is nothing to stop literally millions of other 
> pages from being eventually added.  There are, for example, quite a few 
> groups interested in preserving the memories of those who died in the 
> Holocaust; I don't consider it unlikely that at some point some of them 
> will discover Wikipedia and begin a concerted effort to add at least 
> thousands of biographies of people who have nothing particularly
> notable 

You worry about that? How totally sweet wouldn't it be to have a
COMPLETE list of every single person that was killed in the Holocaust?
Their birth place, age, relatives.. maybe even what jobs they had
had. Then we write articles about their relatives and why they werent
killed in the Holocaust too. 

Just think about it... 6 million people, confirmable detailed
biographical information. If that happens WP can move mountains. The
Holocaust deniers would look quite stupid (as if they don't already!)
when everyone can copy 6 million biographies from WP! 

Maybe none of you would read it. Maybe you all would think it was
rubbish. But *I* would read it, and *I* would wholehearted enjoy it. 

BL