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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6202412" data-attributes="member: 8835">I'd have to go read more to see if I can more knowledgeably deduce their motive.  At the simplest, they have chosen a target that they can single out to eliminate.  They don't see value in the articles, and thus are convinced it is right to destroy them.Given the breadth of Wikipedia's content, I should think it is chock full of articles that can be deemed obscure to a reasonably large (and ignorant) body of people.  Obscurity probably isn't a useful test, and I think it would be harmful.  The very value of a mega-repository is that it holds everything, especially the obscure stuff.  In this way, obscure things are not lost, and are able to be discovered.Consider the BBC's Doctor Who problem.  Had they treated every show as worth retaining, regardless of how little apparent value it had now, they wouldn't be sitting at the 50th anniversary with lost episodes they can't recover.I doubt Vecna articles are as valuable as Dr. Who episodes.  But that isn't for me or any other human to decide with regards to inclusion in an knowledge repository.The big problem with this kind of destruction effort is that collecting the data now, while it is fresh and known (principle creators are mostly still alive) is where more facts can be found.  It's kind of like Wikipedia giving the stink eye to some authors who have actively updated information on their page (because it's not properly sourced).  What better time to collect info, than from direct sources living in the time the data was invented.  Better to document Vecna now, while some of the authors still live, than to wait 100 years for somebody to write about what they THINK Vecna was to this brief fad of role playing games.</blockquote>

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