On 6/16/07, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On 6/15/07, The Mangoe
<the.mangoe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
At any rate, there are
some 1400 tenure and tenure-track faculty at UMD. Harvard has more.
That makes hundreds of thousands "notable", just counting present
faculty; the dead of course hugely outnumber them. The survival of the
project relies upon the lack of interest most people have in entering
these directories (for that is what they will largely be).
Are you suggesting that the project won't survive with 1400 additional
entries? If so, I have to disagree.
Sorry, misread. Are you suggesting that the project won't survive
with hundreds of thousands of additional entries? I still disagree.
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I wouldn't go so far as to say it would kill off the project, but I
believe it would be bad for it. We're not attempting to create "Who's
Who in Academia", we're attempting to create an encyclopedia. By
covering subjects which are barely of note, very little information
exists for, and will be forgotten completely ten years from now, we are
giving them undue weight simply by inclusion. That violates NPOV, which
-is- a core principle.