At 10:25 PM 11/6/03 -0500, James Day wrote:
So, stop deleting and spend our time and energy working out a killer specification for how to indicate that articles are or aren't significant. We'll end up with a far less contentious system and less stress for us all... and incidentally be well on our way to working out how we're going to select what to include in all of the subset editions of the Wikipedia.
There are enough Wikipedians that _we don't all have to work on the same thing_.
There is no reason that some people can't start working on such a specification now, at the same time as others look for copyright violations, copyedit articles, take photos to illustrate bird articles, research people who turn up on "requested articles", and do all the other things that are part of creating this encyclopedia.
I'd suggest that those who want such a specification start a page, maybe at [[m:How to tell what's significant]], where it can be worked on. I'm not opposed to a specification of this sort, I just don't feel up to drafting it. So I'll keep doing the things I do know how to do, which includes writing, copyediting, and deleting obvious garbage.