User blog comment:MrDupin/Why Jeff the Killer isn't a classic/@comment-4715955-20150919103051/@comment-4715955-20150920120859

Yeah, I don't mean to say Shakespeare, Poe, etc didn't have lasting power on their own. They certainly do. Twilight, The Matrix, and Top Gun were all candles in the wind, and even their former fans recognize how terrible they are now. Fads with no lasting power whatsoever. The emphasis was supposed to be on the whole "fading into obscurity" thing, though I'm sure I don't write so hot at 5 AM: the idea of even better authors who couldn't cut it on the business front, or who just weren't lucky enough.

I think preserving the crap is equally important as preserving the good, though. If we have no crap, there's nothing to compare the gold to. Deleting Jeff the Killer from the wiki makes sense because of its quality standards, which has already been covered thoroughly above. But it shouldn't be deleted from the internet, because we need examples of how NOT to write a story just like we need sterling examples of how to do it right.