[WikiEN-l] Partial solution to rampant deletionism

[Adam Bishop]

Why not have entries about everyone who has ever died?  An encyclopedia with 
billions of pages would be fine because it's not paper, right?


>From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
>Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>To: bjrn.lindqvist at telia.com,English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Partial solution to rampant deletionism
>Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:21:38 -0800
>
>Bjorn Lindqvist wrote:
>
>>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!
>>
>Why stop there?  There were an estimated 51 million fatalities in WWII. 
>There is no need to limit this to a subset that represents less than 12% of 
>these mostly innocent people. :-)
>
>Ec
>
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