On 10/27/05, Geoff Burling llywrch@agora.rdrop.com wrote: --snip--
The continuing arguments around VfD/AfD suggests that some of the community does not understand -- or believe -- that there is a goal to this project, a place where our Wiki will eventually end. I suspect that FF has found another end point to our Wiki.
Hogwash. Unless you intend to stop the flow of time and the recording of history, there will be no "end" to the work needed at Wikipedia.
Oh, but eventually the sciences will be covered! Or will they? Our pace of scientific discovery hasn't been slowing, it's been accelerating.
Not only that, but new insight is always coming to the surface. I can't think of a single article on any topic that could reach a state where it should never need to be tweaked or adjusted over the next two hundred years. Imagine for a moment, had Wikipedia been started a hundred years ago. What would the [[Thomas Jefferson]] article look like then? While I'd love to have a hundred years of edit history on Thomas Jefferson to examine, I know we wouldn't accept any hundred year old version as the "best it could be".
-- Michael Turley User:Unfocused