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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by scarmig on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:48PM (#13978818)
But that introduces a huge bias toward political and scientific topics and away from anything else.

FF6? Irrelevant video game, how many wars did it win, why should it be there?

Pfizer? Why should we allow companies to have individual pages, it's just free marketing?

At some point, you cut Wikipedia's breadth down to something that could reasonably be handled by a team of a couple dozen editors. And then you might as well just go with a traditional encyclopedia.

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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by kstrauser on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:06PM (#13979011)
> But that introduces a huge bias toward political and scientific topics and away from anything else.

Well, some scientific topics. An earlier Boing Boing article (http://boingboing.net/2017/02/14/watching-wikipedias-extinct...) references the WP page for hemovanadin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemovanadin . Two editors worked together to "speedy delete" it.

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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by empthought on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:50PM (#13979480)
Same author with the same bias then as now; she tried for quite some time to use Wikipedia as a platform for cosmetic services advertising and personal vendettas.

edit: til she was banned from Wikipedia for it, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...

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