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David Gerard wrote:
Alphax wrote:
So, a website which sells widgets and is unknown outside of the widget community should not have an article
I must ask: why on earth not, if the info is third-party verifiable? How is one to research an area one is new to without cues to such things? If you're interested in an area, why *wouldn't* you be interested in things of interest within that area?
Why should we have articles on every single Pokemon if they are totally unknown outside of the Pokemon community?
I see no reason to deliberately reduce our possible usefulness.
I never said that such things wouldn't become more-well known and hence eventually merit their own articles.
The issue of webcomic articles mostly being pretty crappy is another matter, and an important one.
Right, the problem I see is that people with an "extreme interest" in X (you might even call it obsession) think that "all X are equally important and Wikipedia should have articles on all of them, including Y and Z".
The problem is, the rest of the X community says "oh, Y and Z are just another couple of X's, nothing special". By including Y and Z, we are effectively pushing the POV that there is something different about Y and Z with respect to all other X.
Now, should Y and Z become well-known within the X community, we can mention them in the article about X, possibly even with their own sections in the article on X.
Finally, should Y and Z become known /outside of/ the X community, we can have an article on it.
I feel that an excellent example of this is the Slashdot series.
But your proposal seems an overgeneralisation of a way to use deleting the whole article as a tool to solve *editorial* problems.
Well, we always have the ability to merge and redirect... I really don't understand what you're saying here.
The problem there being that many people think an article being deleted means another article on that topic can never be created, ever. (Some even think an article being deleted means its content shouldn't be allowed in new articles anywhere else on the encyclopedia, which I can't make sense of.)
That's completely wrong...
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