From: Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com
On Oct 2, 2005, at 8:59 PM, JAY JG wrote:
I view the claims that Wikipedia has no notability requirements as an extreme position, and one incompatible with creating an encyclopedia (as opposed to a giant repository of all known facts).
Didn't I read something about imagining a world where every person has free access to the sum of all human knowledge? And about that being what we're doing?
To begin with, I do not think we should insist that every policy in Wikipedia be completely internally consistent, nor should we insist on that requirement for every statement by our fearless leader. There are natural conflicts that arise when one simultaneously tries to provide maximal knowledge at the macro level, and yet is faced with trying to put together an informative and useful product at the micro level.
Equally importantly, many people view "knowledge" to be something rather more refined than "compilations of facts".
Jay.