[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 14, Issue 14

[Denni]

Rick K wrote:

> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:23:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rick <giantsrick13 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: VfD is broken
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> And what do we do about articles which CAN'T be "improved"?  What do we do with such articles as [[Demish ]], [[Anarcho Coronado de Murillo ]], [[Eckvic Culture]], [[Eckvic (god)]], [[Eckvic]], [[Anarcho Coronado de Murillo ]], [[Francisco Vásquez de Coronado]], [[Political Leader of The United Socialist Union ]], [[United Socialist Union]] and [[Coronadists]]?
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> RickK
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> Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
> Rebecca wrote:
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> > allowing junk to remain in the pedia is not the answer.
>
> Nobody is suggesting to "allow junk to remain in the pedia". People are
> instead suggesting to get rid of the junk by improving it rather than
> deleting it.
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>

Often, improved junk is still junk. Trying to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse usually results in a fancy sow's ear. Painting the Lada does not make it any less a Lada. Moreover, I do not detect a rapid move by either oldtimers or newbies to clean up the junk, which will languish in wiki's pages until the packrats (sorry - I mean the preservationists) take a holiday.

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