On 6/3/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
In my mind it should always be possible to take everything from the article namespace (substituting in all the images and templates), throw away everything from all the other namespaces, and be left with what could legitimately be called "an encyclopedia". I think that's a good compromise between immediatism and eventualism, though I suppose it leans fairly heavily toward immediatism (I favor immediately removing unsourced assertions from the article namespace).
Ah, that's interesting. The dichotomy "enyclopaedia"/"project to create encyclopaedia" is actually very similar to the immediatist/eventualist political split. If we are merely a project to produce an encyclopedia one day, then there's no real harm in having inaccurate information now. If we are an encyclopedia now, then every page must always be in a form we can stand by (to the extent that's possible to enforce).
Very interesting, thanks.
Steve