Wikipedia:Discriminate vs indiscriminate information

People who are compulsive hoarders may be unable to discriminate between important and unimportant items, and so they may save everything.

Discriminate vs Indiscriminate Information: during articles for deletion discussions, sometimes WP:IINFO is cited, stating "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information." This is a part of the official policy Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not.

With this, two questions comes up:

  1. What exactly is an "indiscriminate collection of information" ?
  2. Does a "discriminate collection of information" not violate the policy?

This essay looks at those questions and specifically examines in detail the policy in question.


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