User:Vliu5246/sandbox

1.	What are the pros/cons of this open encyclopedia as a collection of knowledge? Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is a valuable source of information that many people use. There are advantages and disadvantages for using Wikipedia. To begin, the first advantage is that Wikipedia is a very big encyclopedia with 2.2 million articles, and all this information is free. Not only is it free, but you can access Wikipedia quickly to obtain its resources. It has an open-content policy, which allows any user in Wikipedia to edit articles. Though Wikipedia is a convenient website to find all the information we need, there are some disadvantages. Articles are often deleted if users click “delete” on an article. Unfortunately, to determine if these articles are truly worth deleting, administrators look to see the number of users who agree with the “delete” decision and compare how many people want to “keep” this article. Administrators don’t take their time to read the article to decide if the article is worth staying on the Wikipedia page. It’s unfortunate for the writer to have the article deleted if the reasons are not just. In addition to the unjust deletions, there are inappropriate changes to the Wikipedia articles because of silly pranksters, which is a disadvantage to Wikipedia’s open-content policy.

2.	What is Baker rescuing with his “Deletopedia” idea? Baker is hoping to rescue articles that users find insignificant, inappropriate, or useless. Though these articles do not hold a place in Wikipedia, they should not disappear from cyberspace forever. Baker hopes that these unneeded articles can have their own page, so they can still be read as long they do not initiate any harmful intent.