On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM, White Cat
<wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
True. But say in 50 years from now we probably
will have the technology to
observe even the most distant stars, we will have data and great deal of
material. When that happens we will have more articles on stars than on any
other topic combined.
I am not suggesting we create five trillion articles in two days, what I am
saying is we should be ready for five trillion articles that will be
eventually (say in the next 50 years) created and expanded. Whenever a topic
gets an impressive amount of coverage, weather its highways or townships or
TV episodes, people panic and try to mass remove them to keep them more
"manageable". This notion is wrong.
In 5 years wikipedia grew so much, in the next 5 years it will shrink if
this redrectifying madness continues as it is.
I picked astronomy for my example as it is an endless source of articles.
Any other topic is finite.
- White Cat
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:24 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/03/2008, White Cat
<wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There are over trillions of stars in the are of
space we can see via
naked
eye or instruments. The analogy generally used
to describe is that
there are
more stars in the universe than sand in the
beaches of this entire
planet.
Clearly a star is a notable object in space
worthy of an article. And
it is
feasible to write entire articles on each and
every one of them if
something
as dull as Proxima Centauri (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri)
is any indication. We should not dump them for
being "Astronomy cruft".
We
should expand them instead.
Proxima Centauri is near to earth so we can actually study it in some
detail. Thus while objectively it might be considered a bog standard
red dwarf from the POV of humanity it is very interesting.
--
geni
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What's wrong with manageable?
There's nothing wrong with redirecting tons of permastubs to a single,
manageable list. That would be true of stars in a galaxy, [snip]