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

Philip Welch wikipedia at philwelch.net
Fri May 19 07:47:20 UTC 2006


On May 18, 2006, at 11:22 PM, Steve Bennett 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?

In terms of content, absolutely. In terms of users, not even close.

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Philip L. Welch
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