Marm

Wikipedia:Babel

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Hi everybody.

Opinions

Here are some opinions I have about wikipedia

• Wikipedia is pretty neat

• Like editions in an encyclopedia, pages should have "expiry" date. Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics, for example, could conceivably been justifiable during the 2004 Summer Olympics, but I'll be damned if it is now.

• Some pages should remain stubs. How can one show that? I don't think one can. A short page exists ---> bam! someone affixes a stub warning to it.

• The worst thing about wikipedia is nationalists. Also genocide deniers.

• The second worst thing is non-notable pages. I think a lot more of them are non-notable than other people do. Then again, I've started at least two pages for people whose notability is not unquestionable: Boris Kornilov and Frederic Wood Jones. But at least they're dead.