On 2/7/06, John Lee johnleemk@gawab.com wrote:
Kirill Lokshin wrote:
On 2/7/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote: Those numbers really don't show as much as one might think, though. OF COURSE any individial article will, on average, have only a handful of editors. The problem is that Wikipedia is increasingly becoming large enough to make reinventing the wheel on every individual article untenable. Thus, we get attempts to create policy/guidelines/style guides/whatever centrally and apply them to a (large) group of articles at the same time, which means consensus needs to form not among a few editors of an article, but among all active editors in a field.
This is most obvious in AFD, incidentally; attempts to delete all schools/Pokemon/roads/etc. get a lot more people involved than have edited any single one of the articles in question.
Not to mention that ludicrous conclusions on AfDs are often reached -- you won't believe how many times I've heard "'''Keep''' all schools" or "'''Keep''', this school exists". Surprisingly, these people often "win".
That's because not everyone thinks that's a ludicrous conclusion. Considering that even the smallest school affects hundreds, if not thousands of people, and that schools in general have a remarkable longevity, it's not that bizarre.