McCain volunteer Ashley Todd recants

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McCain volunteer admits race-baiting fable about being assaulted by a tall black Obama supporter was in fact a lie.

Note that nobody is suggesting John McCain personally urged the young woman to go out and lie for his cause. He just would have benefited from it had it worked.

John Moody, executive vice president at Fox New: "If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain's quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting."

Huh. Ashley Todd's wikipedia entry appears to have been deleted because she isn't notable enough to warrant one.

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Creating "fewer" isn't helping. Creating "better" would be helping, but lots of the editors don't seem to be doing that. There seem to be large herds of roving editors who pop up any time a new article appears to instantly tag it for deletion. This is annoying, discouraging to contributors, and a complete waste of time.

Nobody cares about the average quality of a randomly selected set of Wikipedia articles; it's the ones people actually find when looking for information that they care about, and those are not randomly selected.

As has already been pointed out, a mediocre article on a trivial subject just sitting there is *harmless*. Having that mediocre article on the trivial subject is *better* than having *nothing* on that trivial subject, if anybody ever looks for it.