Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barbara Meneley
Many of the comments here amount to . I think that these editathons, in the end, will have been detrimental to WP because, rather than having a mission of building an encyclopedia (meaning an organized set of articles on ''encyclopedic toipics''), their purpose is essentially political. That is to say the goal is to create articles on people that some group feels is under-represented, rather than letting the organic process of article creation happen naturally. The result, in many cases, is a raft of new bios on increasingly obscure individuals. This phenomenon and others like it (e.g. paid editing) are gradually reducing WP to nothing more than an |online directory
— User:Agricola44, 16:07, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:ILIKEIT||WP:NOTDIRECTORY (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)