[WikiEN-l] Zero information is preferred to misleading or falseinformation

[Peter Mackay]

> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Steve Bennett
 
> On 5/19/06, Philip Welch <wikipedia at philwelch.net> wrote:
> >
> > Think of it like a basketball team. If you absolutely need 
> to have a 
> > basketball team and no one wants to join, you'll take anyone. If 
> > everyone in the school wants to join the basketball team, 
> you have to 
> > set rules and cut people. True, there's a limit to the roster of a 
> > basketball team and no limit to the amount of information Wikipedia 
> > could have, but more importantly there's a minimum in both 
> cases, and 
> > when the minimum is met, you can be more discriminating.
> 
> Has the minimum officially been met yet? Are we now being 
> more discriminating?

There's a few from the "we'll take anyone" days who could be re-examined.

Pete, not naming names, oh no