“Deletionists” vs. “Inclusionists”

by Dima on October 16, 2008
in Wiki, random

I followed Eszter’s post about a rather heated debate on Wikipedia on whether or not “Joe The Plumber” deserves an entry in the online encyclopedia.  It led me to a page with a long list of opinions ranging from “speedy delete” to “speedy keep”.  I, however, found the heading of this page particularly interesting:

Joe the Plumber debate on Wikipedia

What do you think?

P.S. For those of you who are not familiar with the case, Joe became “famous” thanks to the last night presidential debate.  Here is the moment:

And here is the actual encounter they refer to:

P.P.S. On an unrelated note, while searching for the YouTube videos I noticed a new, personalized, layout of the YouTube homepage.  Ironically it introduced me with a bunch of videos about Wal-Mart.  That probably happaned because i searched for videos about Wal-Mart for a presentation last week, but at the same time it disregarded my entire history with YouTube, which is weird…

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