On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Luna<lunasan...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I wrote a post... er, wow, 4 years ago... on why I am a "mergist" saying just about the same thing: "Wiki is not paper" doesn't mean there should be a page for everything; it means there doesn't *have* to be a page for everything: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage/mergism I suppose my position is still similar; I don't think everything needs its own page as long as it's still easy to find what you're looking for. -Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia online: http://donate.wikimedia.org/en Wikimedia, Press: k...@wikimedia.org * Personal: k...@mindspillage.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage * (G)AIM:Mindspillage mindspillage or mind|wandering on irc.freenode.net * email for phone _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l