On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 5:02 AM, The Mangoe the.mangoe@gmail.com wrote:
I do think that "Wikipedia is not a directory" is not being taken seriously enough. Between all the football players, census data, and other such directory data, we are creating an unmaintainable mess. Wikipedia's model rewards people who create new articles, as you can tell by reading AfD. Whether it will reward the considerable work needed to keep all these articles up to date is at the very least questionable. The angst over the fair-use-rationale image deletion crusade suggests that it won't.
I think over the long term you underestimate our abilities. There are plenty of obsessives and fans out there to maintain most things.
Although I do think that our deletion criteria should have more to do with maintainability and less to do with peoples' abstract ideas of what they think a Serious Encyclopedia should contain.
-Matt