Gotta love lists. Why, I was working on List of English monarchs a while back trying to get it featured! :)
Alex (Majorly)
On 16/07/07, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/15/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/15/07, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
Here's an hypocrisy detector: did you ever vote for deleting a list where you nonetless were intrigued by some of the items you saw listed, or for deleting an article which you nonetheless enjoyed or learned from?
I've voted to delete articles that were intriguing. I think most of the minor also-rans in lower level pageants articles need to go, yet I've worked in pageantry, and do read the details of the articles before sending them to the crap bin. In fact, they're one group of articles on AfD that I do read almost the entire article every time.
KP
As opposed to all the other articles that you vote to delete (or not) *without* reading the entire article? That's a bit disturbing. Or do I misread?
Re: lists -- lists are awesome. We should treat them with the same standards as regular articles -- that is, not singling them out for deletion because they are unreferenced, which is a problem that plagues 90% of our content.
FWIW, Britannica *does* include (unreferenced!) lists. On a quick search, for instance, I found "list of populated Dependent States" and "list of major disasters that occurred in 1999". Granted, the first was in a table embedded in the main article about dependent states, which might be a good route to go for many lists that have complimentary main articles. Generally: no, Britannica doesn't have "list of songs about x," but as we all know they also don't have all those troublesome articles about pop culture, movie plots, kinky sex, etc. etc. etc. (though they do have much better bibliographies, even if most articles lack references). **It's a poor comparison.
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