At 09:07 PM 25/09/02 -0700, Stephen Gilbert wrote:
I'm with Axel. I think a project with the goal of
world-wide biographies could be interesting, but
Wikipedia is not such a project.
I also agree. One of the first things I did when the new Wiki software came
along with its lovely User: subspace was to delete my old "home article"
completely; I don't belong in an encyclopedia, I'm nobody important (yet
:). Yes, Wikipedia has effectively unlimited space, but even so there are
things which aren't IMO appropriate for inclusion in an encyclopedia no
matter how big it is. They distract rather than inform. Encyclopedias are
an overview of human knowledge, not the sum total of it; that's what the
_rest_ of the library is for.