"Alphax" <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote in
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David Gerard wrote:
I must ask: why on earth not, if the info is
third-party verifiable?
How is one to research an area one is new to without cues to such
things? If you're interested in an area, why *wouldn't* you be
interested in things of interest within that area?
Why should we have articles on
every single Pokemon if they are totally
unknown outside of the Pokemon community?
At the very least we should have a list of every single Pokemon, and
articles on those which might be particularly interesting, or about which
there is a lot of information.
Unfortunately there is now also a tendency for lists like this to be
nominated for AFD as "listcruft". "Unmaintainable" is also a term
bandied
about, usually meaning "incomplete" or often "I don't know what these
things
are so I couldn't maintain the list myself", as if it were untenable to ever
include a list in Wikipedia before full membership were determined (don't
these people understand, Wikipedia is **dynamic**!) and rude to include a
list of things which some poor benighted person might not have come across
before.
Sometimes it's difficult to discern exactly what some AFD nominators would
consider suitable for an article at all.
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Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]