[WikiEN-l] Why changing the deletion process is a bad idea

[Ray Saintonge]

Snowspinner wrote:

> On Sep 14, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Phroziac wrote:
>
>> On 9/14/05, Snowspinner <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I would rather have an encyclopedia that has a truly staggering
>>> amount of information but that some people dismiss because it has
>>> some silly articles than a well-respected but heavily incomplete
>>> encyclopedia. If I wanted that, I'd just go to Britannica.
>>
>> Isn't that exactly why we exist?
>
> I always thought so.

In the world of encyclopedic Darwinism Britannica has ceased being 
competitive.

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