On 8/31/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 8/30/06, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds good. But fergoshsakes just put the info
in a table. Worst
thing about the town rambot articles is that they're pretty crappy
prose but it never gets edited, ever; second is that the demographic
information came from a table and should be presented as a table, not
as crappy prose.
Yeah. I bet over time the crappy prose of all these town articles
will
slowly be edited in different directions, becoming different, equally
crappy, prose.
I was tempted to edit one once, then realised how many times I'd have
to repeat my work. Eek.
And since we're having a whinge, the other problem with an article
like that is you think it's actually fairly complete. You'd think that
3-4 paragraphs of text would be a decent amount for a small town.
Whereas it covers the demographics, and that's it - no history, no
geography, no "the construction of a Walmart caused uproar in 2005".
Steve
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G'day folks,
Personally, I think that a comprehensive coverage of towns is one of our
strengths at least in the first world. If there was verifiable concern in a
town over the construction of a Walmart, I have no problem with our article
saying it.
If someone wants to write about the history and geography of their local
area from reliable sources more power to their arm. We have had a number of
Featured Articles on towns and things that wouldn't be listed in traditional
encyclopedias. This, in my view, is a good thing.
We probably need more on local areas in third world countries but that will
come. We had a featured article on Central Asian history recently for
example which is encouraging.
If someone wants to write articles on asteroids and other astronomical
bodies from reliable sources, good on them. If people looking for that
information come to Wikipedia, that is beneficial.
It definitely falls within my understanding of the Sum of all Human
Knowledge.
Regards to all
Keith Old
Yea but, I agree with the statement above that such imported data is
best represented as an infobox. So I suspect most of these will be one
sentence and one info-box stubs. That is a very tempting AfD target to
some. Perhaps irresistible.
SKL