User:Very Polite Person/Every turd is entitled to be a rose
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 | This page in a nutshell: Every article, no matter what, should be built to GA or FA status eventually. |
If you click on or make a bookmark of the address "Special:Random" or "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random", you will always get a new random article of 7,006,380 possible pages. Go do that right now a few times -- as often as you'd like. Eventually, you'll get to one that makes you think:
| “ | That has an article? But why? | ” |
The why never matters: if the article is valid for Wikipedia and meets our policies, it's here because someone went to the effort of making the article. The only relevant why is that someone cared enough to do the work.
The subject of the article, in particular, may be the equivalent of crap to you. That's fine. You're entitled to your opinion. But for someone else, that same article meant enough to make it. It may bring them joy to see it, and share it. Your crap is their flower, that they shared... though to you, you simply... stepped in what you don't think is a flower. It doesn't matter.
Every article, no matter how stupid one may think it is, deserves to be polished into the very best it can be.
We ought to recall the mission statement of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and learn from it:
| “ | ...generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges. | ” |
If not for our ability to carry forward knowledge as a species, we'd be still living in caves, fearful of the stars overhead. Our greatest challenge is advancement of the species, through knowledge. You can never know today the value of preserving a particular piece of knowledge for tomorrow. To quote J.R.R. Tolkien:
| “ | Even the very wise cannot see all ends. | ” |
Every turd is entitled to be a rose.