User:Inmatarian

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Alias Inmate2993. Contact through Jabber: inmate2993 at devzero.co.uk

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[edit] Opinions about Wiki Policy

[edit] Deletion

Priority should probably be placed on recency and traffic. Older articles that don't conform shouldn't be outright erased. Wiki's own posterity saves all edits to all pages, so space concerns are clearly not an issue. If anything, non-conforming articles that don't survive review should be marked to indicate that it failed review, and locked to prevent any editing. Then, after a short "cooling off" period, allowed for appeal to be unlocked and given a second chance at being made to conform.

[edit] Notability

Way too subjective. Use of Google to determine notability shouldn't be allowed, as google is just an algorithmic data indexing tool. Again, space clearly isn't an issue, so I don't see why any information which is at least good to someone shouldn't be kept. Although Wiki does try to remain neutral and unbiased, it does have to accept that it is part of the world, and only keeping high profile information is acting in bias towards that information, thus driving its own notability further.

[edit] Addendum

Citation of secondary sources, however, is a must. Notability, or how the term is misused, Popularity, shouldn't be the point of Wikipedia. Verifiability should be the point. The retention of all correct data is what's important.