On Friday 28 December 2007 19:05, Ned Scott wrote:
I'm also confused as to why people seem to think
that [[WP:MYSPACE]]
applies to anything that they don't see as helping Wikipedia.
Certainly, useless categories should be deleted, but being useless
does not mean something is being (or is even practical to be) used for
social networking. It also seems to set people off, in that since they
are assuming these categories are being used for social networking,
reasonable arguments that demonstrate wiki-related use will not be
given proper consideration.
Like I said, a lot of these deletions are dead on, but we're also
losing a lot of categories that were realistically usable. Should some
be taken to DRV? Should a kind of "rationale" page be created to help
avoid confusion? Are any of these categories realistically being used
for social networking, or are we overreacting? Are babies in lurking
in the bath water? Is it bath water in the first place? Green or
yellow? Up or down? Paper or plastic?
Why do any of them need to be deleted? What do they hurt?
I strongly suggest you (and those who agree with you) read [[Wikipedia:Why do
you care?]], an essay I wrote on this subject a few weeks ago.
--
Kurt Weber
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