On Saturday 12 May 2007 11:32, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Regardless of what you call it, it is perfectly obvious that the threshold for including something in an article should be lower than the threshold for giving something its own article.
No, it's not. It's not obvious at all.
The alternative would result in Wikipedia being a website containing billions is interlinked stubs with nothing else since as soon as anything was deemed worthy of getting added to an article it would be split of into its own article.
(1) Not necessarily (2) Even if it did happen, you seem to think it's a bad thing. Why?