On 17/10/2007, Michael Noda michael.noda@gmail.com wrote:
The second hypothesis is that Rambot introduced a culture of comprehensiveness into the editor pool; now that we had an article on *every* place in the US, we now needed to have articles on *every* Nobel Prize winner, *every* current member of the national legislature, every *former* member of the national legislature, and so on.
Give that man a cookie. The lure of completeness is very good for getting the final 25% of anything written; the more complete sets we have to point to as precedents, the more likely any given grouping is going to be defined as "completable".
And things like biographies, which are human-written and individual by neccessity, are a bigger lure than manually writing stubs on French communes, so these are the kind of things that people focus on as their sets to work on.
I like it.