<sob> You would delete all these articles I've created that no-one else has edited? :-(
Carcharoth On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:45 PM, <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: > Only if I can write a corollary, "Any article 90 days old or more, with > a single editor should be deleted". That would be a ground-level bar > on "notability". And also an interesting exercise in cobweb control. > > Will Johnson > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Luna <lunasan...@gmail.com> > To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 3:29 pm > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary > > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:07 PM, <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: > >> OK the other side of the argument is "Wikipedia is not paper". That >> is, presumably, that we have a virtually unlimited amount of space in >> which to describe whatever we want. >> > > Indeed. Our size limitations are not physical, but logical. We're no > longer > limited by the number of paper pages one can bind together, nor by the > number of bound volumes one can distribute, but rather by more abstract > concepts of readability, usability, maintainability, and so on. > > I've been meaning for a while, now, to write a project-space essay > encouraging a shift from "notability" to "maintainability" as a primary > inclusion guideline. Lack of suitable sourcing makes maintenance > difficult, > because it's that much harder for us to be sure of accuracy and NPOV. If > nothing else, the two ideas might complement each other well. > > -Luna > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l