[WikiEN-l] deletionism in popular culture

[Ian Woollard]

Yes, but some of those really bad articles will become good articles
if you spend enough time on them.

Deletion short-circuits that.

In a perfect world, with perfect AFDs it wouldn't matter. In the real
world, with real world AFDs it does.


On 04/11/2009, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, now you've given me another guess: The problem with PWD is that it's
>> wrong to have deleted material available for people to look at because
>> that
>> would encourage them to look at deleted content rather than undeleted
>> material?
>
> (I haven't read the PWD proposal, but it seems self-explanatory.)
>
> Deletion is good because it totally dispenses with junk. Average
> article quality goes up when we ditch bad articles. It prevents people
> from spending time on really bad articles. Having deleted articles
> readily available would interfere with all that. There are places on
> the internet for all kinds of junk, regardless of quality or value.
> Wikipedia is not one.
>
> Steve
>
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-Ian Woollard