[derleth]

Deletionism is the only reason Wikipedia remains using. Without deletions, it would have sunk into the world of spam-trap and personal blog platform long ago.

[ars]

Delete the garbage, but leave the trivial. I hate deletionists.

[derleth]

> Delete the garbage

Which is still deletionism.

[guard-of-terra]

Why? If they define an article "A blog of John Ass", I just won't read it and my experience would not degrade.

I still get nuclear physics in "Nuclear Physics" article, amn't I?

I can't see how having more articles will make things worse.

[derleth]

> I still get nuclear physics in "Nuclear Physics" article, amn't I?

Not at the same level of quality, because they also won't be deleting the nonsense crank pseudo-science version of "Nuclear Physics" which would confuse you terribly. Deleting crap is one of the best ways to make the project as a whole useful.

[guard-of-terra]

Well, I won't read that version, I'll only read the "real" one.

Bonus points: journalists and common folk will stop pretending everything in wikipedia is true like they do now.

[derleth]

> Well, I won't read that version, I'll only read the "real" one.

You won't know which is which unless you already know enough to not need to look it up in a general reference such as Wikipedia. That's the point.