[asgard1024]

I agree with your point. It's generally better to have some article that no article. But Wikipedia is also supposed to be readable by humans, to provide insight and understanding. I am not sure that mere formatted collection of data, as opposed to a real article, does that. And I believe there are many Wikipedia editors who feel the same.

Though, wouldn't it be more efficient to put the data into some machine readable form, if they were already processed by the machines anyway? This would then allow anybody to create algorithm to extract information (meaning) from the data.

So I think there are also good reasons to keep the human and machine created articles separate.

[pilsetnieks]

It's not so much a formatted collection of data as it is like an excerpt from an encyclopedia. It's sparse and the articles are pretty similar to each other but it has proper sources, and someone might actually find the information useful. And it could serve as a starting point to improve by some enterprising Swedish biologist.