User:Pigman/Ode to Deletionism

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[edit] Credo: A Modest Ode to Deletionism

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. As such, it requires a certain level of sifting of topics and subjects or the encyclopedia becomes a sludgy mess of barely differentiated information.

[edit] Useful Standards of Inclusion

One view is that applying standards of inclusion and exclusion is unnecessary on Wikipedia which, after all, isn't a paper encyclopedia. That very standard also says "This policy is not a free pass for inclusion: Articles still must abide by the appropriate content policies and guidelines, in particular those covered in the five pillars."

For me, the limitation for inclusion is generally verifiable sources which are also reliable. If an article has no or extremely poor sources for its content, particularly after a year or more, I question the article's validity as an independent article.

Disambiguation pages help when certain crossroads present a variety of choices but the even they can reach a point where navigation is difficult.