[WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

[wjhonson at aol.com]

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.

So if we want individual articles on each episode of "Gunsmoke" we 
should have them.  If we want individual articles on each chapter of 
War and Peace we should have them.

There is no reason why 3 million articles today, could not be 300 
million articles in ten years.  So why all the fuss? Get busy and stop 
deleting my articles.

The size and price of hard disk storage is dropping like a sinner to 
Hell.  We have 1 Terabyte external's going for 30 bucks.  The 
foundation just needs to invest in more cheap hardware and pound the 
pavement for more contributions.

Will Johnson


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 2:06 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary


2009/8/18  <WJhonson at aol.com>:
> I just explained why.  Some people would find three thousand articles 
 on
> "Superman" is be overwhelming.
> It's a similar situation to having separate articles on each subway 
stop in
>  New York City or each Mayor of Santa Cruz.

No, you just explained one side of the argument. An argument only
exists if there are two sides and it is only a high profile argument
if ther
e is some additional factor.

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