On 8/30/06, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
Personally, I think that a comprehensive coverage of towns is one of our strengths at least in the first world. If there was verifiable concern in a town over the construction of a Walmart, I have no problem with our article saying it.
If someone wants to write about the history and geography of their local area from reliable sources more power to their arm. We have had a number of Featured Articles on towns and things that wouldn't be listed in traditional encyclopedias. This, in my view, is a good thing.
I think you misunderstood what I was getting at. I *agree* with all of this. What I don't enjoy is tabular data being misrepresented as prose written by a human. And specifically, the *lack* of all the types of information you're mentioning. There is a lot more to a town that demographics.
If someone wants to write articles on asteroids and other astronomical
Key point: If someone wants to write articles. But they don't. They want to automatically generate thousands of pseudo-articles from tables of data.
Steve