David Gerard wrote:
Why should we have articles on every single Pokemon if they are totally unknown outside of the Pokemon community?
*What have I forgotten on this list?
(I should probably put the list above somewhere on the wiki. Suggestions?)
One point that may be overlooked -- the sheer size and number of articles is not so much of a burden for Wikimedia -- which has ample resources -- but it might be an issue for any potential downstream users of the content.
From a recent e-mail from Jimmy Wales to foundation-l: "Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so." ( http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-October/004545.html )