Even so there exits people who mass remove (redirectify/merge/delete - take
your pick) content. Mass creation isn't that big of a deal. Junk can always
be dealt with. Junk has never been a serious issue as the definition of junk
has been rock solid all along. A problem has emerged when people decided to
expand the definition of junk to include entire categories of articles
without securing a consensus for it.

An elite group of self righteous users does not add up to such a consensus.
If such people truly cared about the well being of the encyclopedia they
would have spent the time to secure the consensus before taking action.

The issue surrounding fiction related articles and other unimportant topics
needs a resolution and I am willing to settle with any kind of resolution at
this point.

   -- White Cat


On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Ian Woollard <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 10/01/2009, White Cat <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Interesting... But the actual point of this thread remains unanswered.
> >    - White Cat
>
> The real underlying problem is that no one has any defensible bright
> line as to what the scope of an encyclopedia is.
>
> Somebody clever may be able to find one though. Perhaps some sort of
> points system or statistically based technique could be devised.
>
> --
> -Ian Woollard
>
> We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly
> imperfect world would be much better.
>
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