The Cunctator wrote:
(Not to mention that 99% of all trivial subjects are not at all interesting to the vast majority of people, like information about one particular elementary school.)
Frankly, 99% of all subjects are not at all interesting to the vast majority of people. That isn't a reasonable guideline for Wikipedia.
I think it's very useful in this context to distinguish between Wikipedia.org the ongoing always-in-process website, and some future Wikipedia 1.0, which will be reviewed (somehow) and space-constrained (for print, at least).
It is of course true that an article on my old high school would be undesirable clutter in a space-constrained encyclopedia. But if I wrote one now, it wouldn't hurt anything. It would only ever been seen by people who are interested, and it wouldn't get in the way or bother anyone who isn't.
--Jimbo