One of the odd things about dropping in on Wikipedia briefly on a regular basis (I try to look at my watchlist a couple of times a week) is that I get periodic messages on my user page, about articles I have no recollection of, because I worked on them five years ago. On at least one occasion, someone thought I had created such an article, because I was either the last editor before, or the first after, the migration to the current software, so a complete article history goes back to me. So I'm asked to defend against deletion a page that I made an attempt to turn into something sane, on a topic that probably doesn't need an article.
The latest I've been asked to attend to is "Early Infanticidal Childrearing." The note says, under the title,
While I may have had valuable comments then, right now I am shorter on valuable time, so I'm not planning to pursue this.
The latest I've been asked to attend to is "Early Infanticidal Childrearing." The note says, under the title,
Remember that?A new editor, Cesar Tort, has done a major edit of the article and changed the title to [[Psychohistorical views on infanticide]], but I still think it is highly problematic. I had a detailed exchange with him in which I set out my problems with the revised article and he responded [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Early_infanticidal_childrearing#My_own_objections_to_the_article] here - it would take some time to read through, but several years ago you had many valuable comments, and I would be grateful if you could look at the revised article and my comments, and those of others in sections below mine, and add your voice.
While I may have had valuable comments then, right now I am shorter on valuable time, so I'm not planning to pursue this.
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ETA -- I looked. Why am I not surprised that, like the arguments at the Copernicus article, it's the same bizarro, different players?
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That said, yeah, it's not likely that The Universe has appointed you to adjudicate on this topic, and if you don't have time to play with it, you don't have time for it.
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Whether arrant nonsense deserves article space is an interesting question, and comes down in part to what you want an encyclopedia to be. There is no shortage of web space, generally, for you, me, or anyone to put up weird things like TimeCube, or biographies of our cats.