[WikiEN-l] Google Knol: Move over Wikipedia?

[John Lee]

On Dec 20, 2007 12:14 PM, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu wrote:
> > Yes, at this point inclusionism is dead and eventualism is a heresy. If enough
> > editors try and get WP:EPISODE's guideline status removed then one
> > could go DRV
> > all of these. I'm about to go on vacation and haven't been willing to
> > attempt to
> > do so in the past because of lack of success but if enough people
> > actually agree
> > with me there's no need not to try. This is really destroying a lot of content
> > and the GFDL issue pointed out by Derksen doesn't help matters at all
> > (although
> > that's more easily corretable)
>
> I rarely get involved in policy disputes, but this does seem like a hill
> worth dying on - I've done some more looking around and the amount of
> material being removed in this particular purge is enormous. It also
> seems to be heavily driven by just a handful of editors - the same
> usernames keep popping up in the histories. I guess it's been gotten
> away with so far because there hasn't actually been deleting going on
> for the most part, just redirecting.
>
> I notice now that an arbitration case has been filed on this subject;
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Episodes_and_characters>.
> Haven't had time to read through it all yet.
>
> I'm going to go on vacation in a few days myself, unfortunately, but
> I'll still have net access. Anyone more policy-savvy than I have
> suggestions on how I should go about tossing my hat into this fight?

The fuck? I find it absolutely crazy how some deletionists are taking
deletionism far beyond what many original deletionists ever
envisioned. I see no reason at all why we cannot have articles on
episodes of notable television shows, provided they are referenced and
contain more information than can be gleaned from a [[List of X
episodes]]. This is completely insane and fucktarded - episodes of TV
shows are not inherently non-notable.

Johnleemk