On 03/10/05, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
I view the claims that Wikipedia has no notability requirements as an extreme position, and one incompatible with creating an encyclopedia (as opposed to a giant repository of all known facts).
Didn't I read something about imagining a world where every person has free access to the sum of all human knowledge? And about that being what we're doing?
Knowledge =/= information
(random analogy)
A list of seven-digit numbers is data. A nicely-arranged telephone book is information. Observing that ~4% of the city appears to be called Smith is knowledge...
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