From: "Tony Sidaway" minorityreport@bluebottle.com
JAY JG said:
I read his opinion on schools, and it seemed to be explicitly excluding the extremes Tony (and various school inclusionists) are suggesting.
Interesting. Examples?
In the post in question Jimbo said "Let me make my point more clear: arguments about what we ought to if someone really starts to abuse wikipedia with thousands and thousands of trivial articles do not prove that we ought to delete any and every article that's too trivial today.
Put another way: if someone wants to write an article about their high school, we should relax and accomodate them, even if we wish they wouldn't do it. And that's true *even if* we should react differently if someone comes in and starts mass-adding articles on every high school in the world...
That's true *even if* we'd react differently to a ton of one-liners mass-imported saying nothing more than "Randolph School is a private school in Huntsville, Alabama, US" and "Indian Springs is a private school in Birmingham, Alabama, US" and on and on and on, ad nauseum."
We are at the stage where people are indeed adding masses of trivial one-line articles about schools, which the school inclusionists immediately describe as a "good stub with potential for organic growth".
And on a side note, I'm rather suprised to find myself--long classed by some as a ruthless deletionist, described here as an extreme inclusionist.
Described where as "an extreme inclusionist"?
Jay.