Wikipedia axing cute and lovable Pokemon
This entry was posted on 03-08-2008 and is filed under uncategorized.
"I'm no fan of Pokemon, but the deletion of well-written Pokemon articles demonstrate the motives of "deletionists". Pokemon characters have lots of media and sources associated with them, have a lot of fans who would be interested in reading these articles and editing them, and are "notable". They're also a great way to get people involved in Wikipedia: they come to the site, see how good our coverage of that subject is, and begin contributing/getting interested in the project."
http://wikip.blogspot.com/The above author makes a number of good points. It's been my opinion that the deletionists may have a point that, "less is more", in that a higher quality leads to more use of Wikipedia, the one highest goal of WP should be "More".
More good things and options are available to the encyclopedia when there is more traffic. A goal of a site about everything would be my choice. We don't an entity that keeps throwing good parts of itself away.
