On 7/21/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To say that any interests are "less useful to
us" is nonsense. We have
practically unlimited space and for this reason I deny we can ever
really have too many factually accurate, verifiable articles on a
particular subject. We can, of course, have too few articles on a
given subject. For this reason, a common interest is not less useful
to us, but a rare interest is more useful to us.
Ok, I think we're talking about different things. A tenured professor
who is world expert in his field and is taking the time to write high
quality articles about some important field is immensely valuable to
us. A 15 year old polishing up an article about the Battle Zoblaorgeth
on Mondoorba is less valuable. Not worthless, but less valuable.
That's all.
Yes, but no one should be less welcome than average.
:)
Perhaps
not. The current situation is that we are making editorial
calls on what popular culture is worthy of an article. I would rather
With very little success.
Could you cite an example?
Have a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28fiction%29
Summary: "Only start articles about minor characters and fictional
things if the main articles are too long". That's the extent of our
thinking on fictional subjects.
Steve