[WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

[Carcharoth]

<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, <wjhonson at 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
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luna <lunasantin at gmail.com>
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 3:29 pm
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary
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> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:07 PM, <wjhonson at 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
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