Why not have entries about everyone who has ever died? An encyclopedia with billions of pages would be fine because it's not paper, right?
From: Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: bjrn.lindqvist@telia.com,English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Partial solution to rampant deletionism Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:21:38 -0800
Bjorn Lindqvist wrote:
How totally sweet wouldn't it be to have a COMPLETE list of every single person that was killed in the Holocaust? Their birth place, age, relatives.. maybe even what jobs they had had. Then we write articles about their relatives and why they werent killed in the Holocaust too.
Just think about it... 6 million people, confirmable detailed biographical information. If that happens WP can move mountains. The Holocaust deniers would look quite stupid (as if they don't already!) when everyone can copy 6 million biographies from WP!
Why stop there? There were an estimated 51 million fatalities in WWII. There is no need to limit this to a subset that represents less than 12% of these mostly innocent people. :-)
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On 11/9/03 1:36 PM, "Adam Bishop" grenfell_@hotmail.com wrote:
Why not have entries about everyone who has ever died? An encyclopedia with billions of pages would be fine because it's not paper, right?
As to your first question, it's a bit difficult to find confirmable information about everyone who has ever died. And there are obvious deficiencies in the current organization/search/naming technologies and conventions in the current Wikipedia which would make such an idea unwise.
But as to your second question, yes. Though it's a very good idea for the number of pages to be in some kind of proportion to the audience/contributorship, so until there are, say 10 million editors on Wikipedia, it would probably be a bad idea to take steps to explode the number of pages on the site.