geni:
See: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html (Ideas we are looking to sponsor)
- More open alternatives to Wikipedia. Deletionists rule Wikipedia. Ironically, they're constrained by print-era thinking. What harm does it do if an online reference has a long tail of articles that are only interesting to a few people, so long as everyone can still find whatever they're looking for? There is room to do to Wikipedia what Wikipedia did to Britannica.
Yes it's called the world wide web.
Can't Britannica argue the same thing about wikipedia?
why don't we enable access to deleted content ?
Because the deletion database is lousy with copyvios libel and privacy violations.
Then purge all the libels and delete the 'non notables' Or simply don't delete the non notables, but mark them as such.