On 10/1/05, Jack Lynch jack.i.lynch@gmail.com wrote:
If we were making paper encyclopedias, this inclusionism deletionism thing would make sense. Both sides would have a case. But unless the information is false, unusable, or otherwise profoundly unencyclopedic, it should stay, we have enough "room". Possibly some articles will never be used, but thats better than people failing to find what their looking for.
Putting aside the philosophical issues here, wouldn't it be easier, just from a practical standpoint, to merge the information in these traffic circle articles into the articles on the towns that they are in? Info about traffic circles can go into [[traffic circle]], the logical place to put it.
I don't think the information has to go, I just think that in many cases it would be easier (for both editors and readers) to have more information on single pages, than on many smaller ones.
And now the philosophical rant:
The goal is for everyone to have access to the sum total of human knowlege.
Actually no, WP is an encyclopaedia, not a general knowledge base.
-- Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com