[WikiEN-l] User:FritzpollBot creating millions of new

[Bryan Derksen]

Nathan wrote:
> How does simply having what is basically a placeholder entry for each
> town/village/city etc. alleviate systemic bias? Most of these articles will
> be ignored completely after creation, while those that are expanded and
> improved will reflect the factors that led to systemic bias in content
> initially.

It certainly can't _hurt_ systemic bias. Having a stub will allow people 
to start editing on the subject more easily, especially anonymous 
editors. And even if the aritcle's ignored after creation, at least 
we'll have _something_ on that subject.

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