Rick wrote:
My opinion is the same as yours. Such articles have no place on Wikipedia.
Is your opinion the same as Gareth's that further discussion is worthless? I hope not, and I hope he'll change his mind about that, too.
I'm interested in hearing about just *why* you think such articles "have no place on Wikipedia". What's the harm? How does it negatively impact us?
I think the benefits are easily identifiable -- these are topics that are of ongoing interest to people, they have historical relevance in the long run, wiki is not paper so they don't hurt anything, and so on.
But the costs are harder for me to identify. These aren't appearing on the front page. They will only been seen by people who are looking for them. Given the mechanics of VfD, it's a lot more work to delete them than to just ignore them or (better) throw in a couple more lines to improve them.
--Jimbo