Re:The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History
by gwern on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @11:03AM
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Nice post hoc excuse. In all the hundreds/thousands of AfDs I've participated in or closed, I don't think I've ever seen anyone say 'this article should be deleted because it will make a disambig page smaller'.
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Re:The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History
by riffraff on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @01:26PM
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It's not an excuse, as I have never flagged anything for deletion.
It's a purely external reasoning: wikipedia as I see it is already in a un-maintained state for many not notable articles, more articles without a change to how WP works will lead to more of those diminishing the overall quality of the project.
And no, I don't buy that not deleting articles will magically increase the number of contributors.
> more articles without a change to how WP works will lead to more of those diminishing the overall quality of the project.
You know, if you let everyone use the Internet, the average quality of the writing will go down!!!
The average is completely the wrong metric to be using here. Not as good articles do not 'infect' the good articles, and the average is meaningless. If you don't need to know about a topic covered by an article you disapprove of... you don't have to read it.