On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 5:02 AM, The Mangoe <the.mangoe(a)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