On 9/24/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Hitting with a verifiability hammer is a good first move for those. But if we start cutting subject areas because they attract POV warriors, then it's time to mark everything about Israel, Palestine or Linux for removal.
- d.
We don't cut subject areas, we just limit our depth of coverage to include only as many articles as we're capable of keeping in line with our core policies. Thus, for Israel-Palestine, we probably wouldn't want to have articles on, say, every single jailed Palestinian militant, since I doubt we have enough core editors to enforce NPOV on all of them. For schools, we wouldn't cut all school articles, but rather see how many we seem to be capable of maintaining in a neutral, verifiable state, and draw a line accordingly, probably based on the amount of independently published material. What I'm suggesting is basically to treat subject independently and determine how much material the community of editors that works on that subject is able to support; then come up with a notablility threshhold based on that.
--Robth