`\\ ::Right now I simply cannot believe the assertion ``Wikipedia would get swamped and it would be hundreds of times as much work to weed out the junk articles after the fact``.  I think welcoming attititude towards new people is much more important. However, Wikipedia is trying to become something else right now. I have no idea what that is, I didn't get the memo. It seems that Wikipedia is going to conduct itself like a ``real`` encyclopedia, only having entries that have wealth of information otherwise. But such encyclopedias are not useful anymore, because any information there is on the Net, Google will find for you. Such directories (what encyclopedias used to be), are over and are only useful if there is no Net access.  On the other hand, if the information is scarce, subject matter experts would have written an article in Wikipedia. Such article is now deleted, because it can not be sourced through Google.  `