[WikiEN-l] We need a policy against vote-stacking

[Philip Welch]

On May 5, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Phil Boswell wrote:

>> Again, replace Star Trek with Pokemon (my favourite punching bag, for
>> no real reason). Would you really entrust Pokemon fans with deciding
>> which Pokemon articles are notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia?
>> Surely your proposal simply leads to vastly greater inclusion rates.
>>
> But if all of those articles were of good quality and well  
> referenced, who
> could possibly object? Those articles are still subject to fearless  
> editing
> from anybody who wants to fix the often egregious grammar and  
> spelling (as
> is common elsewhere I should add :-). Also WP:NOT paper, remember?  
> It's not
> as if those articles on Pokemon are taking up space which would  
> otherwise be
> available for your own pet subject.

Undue weight. It's absurd for Pokemon to have 10,000 times more  
coverage within Wikipedia as, for instance, 19th century philosophy.

-- 
Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch