On 5/15/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Cost/benefit. The cost in terms of trying to maintain the darn things would exceed our resources and outweigh any benefit by at least an order of magnitude.
Absolutely. This is by far the most compelling reason to draw a line somewhere. Whether we're an "encyclopaedia" and what that means doesn't actually matter much. But if it's too much effort for too little benefit to have some crappy little article on some crappy topic, then we shouldn't do it.
Conversely, having comprehensive coverage of a topic area is a big benefit compared to the small cost of one or two crappy articles that otherwise wouldn't belong.
Steve