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Monday, December 11, 2006

Not Notable: Wikipedia's Arbitrary Deletion Policy

I'm a big fan of Wikipedia, but it's deletion policy for non-notable topics is deeply flawed. It's arbitrary and enforced by a self-selecting group who errs on the side of deleting. The result is that Wikipedia is less useful resource. Here's my extended take on the flaws in Wikipedia's non-notable topic deletion process.

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