[game_preservation] Should Wikipedia Be Responsible for Gaming's History?

[Jan Baart]

> The question should perhaps never be "Why shouldn't this be deleted?" 

> but "Why can't this be included?". More pages doesn't make it harder 

> to find info, it just makes it better :)

>

> Andrew

>


That's precisely the right question Andrew. I don't get Wikipedia's 
relevance-based approach at all. They don't that much extra storage for 
additional articles and I'm sure anyways that the actual webspace is not 
a significant cost factor. So, indeed, the question has to be: Why 
exclude anything at all? As long as its properly researched and worth 
its own entry instead of being a part of another one I'd say they should 
allow it. The amount of deleted worthwile content I've come across is 
astonishing. Imho Wikipedia might actually threaten its own strong 
position by this approach in the long run.

Jan