On 10/2/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
This isn't a problem. It's what has made English Wikipedia one of the largest reference works in the English language.
It is a problem becuase you run into the issue of not very good articles. Your proposal won't work because only a very small number of people want to work on subjects they are not interested in when they could work on subjects they are interested in.
Most people have two driveing factors.1.) the desire to write stuff 2). the desire to write about stuff they are interested in. Now lets see how inclusonism and deletionism work on this two factors. Inclusonism plays to both factors but results in a large number of articles that only one person cares about. Works against the second but gains the advantage of encourageing colaberation since A space is smaller it means that editors are more likely to interact. This means that the mean number of active editors per article increases. This increase the mean amount of editor energy per article which in turn increases their quality. Sure in time you may exauste A space at which point it is time to enlarge it but until then there is no need to do so.
Articles on subjects in which nobody shows any interest should probably not be on our main page.
Really? Lets look at [[Algerian Civil War]]. Featured article. Look how short it's talk page is. Go back to before it was on the main page and you will find it was basicaly wirtten by [[User:Mustafaa]]. That is how interested people were in the topic.
-- geni