What is a frivolous article? I personally wouldn't mind if every article about a soap opera disappeared but that doesn't make them frivolous. And similar remarks apply to pretty much every niche subjects. If we have enough verifiable material on a subject then it isn't frivolous. If we don't, then we shouldn't have an article.
Quoting Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com:
Granted, we're not completed in some areas that we should be, but there is a very large signal-to-noise ratio in terms of articles. For every core article there are 10 frivolous ones.
Perhaps I am wrong about the scalability of quality control to enwiki. I don't think so though. There is definitely a size difference between NL and EN. I'm not one to minimize 380k-ish articles, which is a very noble achievement; however, there is a noticeable difference between the sizes. A magnitude of about 5 1/4 times difference, give or take. That's 5 times as many articles. Does enwiki have a force of editors willing to read every single edit to every single article? Sustainable?
I think not, but that's just my jaded opinion.
Chad h.
On Nov 21, 2007 6:30 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 21/11/2007, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
The simple fact is that enwiki is /far/ too large to properly make use of any quality control system, be it patrolled edits or flaggedrevs.
I think you're wrong. nl:wp is smaller, but it's not *that* much smaller.
If only we had 1,000,000 articles again. 2 million is too many, and I
for
one think we need to do some major pruning and sprucing up of our guidelines. Quality, not quantity,
is
what we need. I find it hard to believe we have 2 million articles on 2 million notable subjects. I for
one
would like to see the article count drop *below* 2 million again.
I strongly suggest you read [[WP:WIP]] and follow the red link lists at the bottom. en:wp is so far from finished it's ridiculous.
- d.
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