On 10/23/05, Daniel P. B. Smith <dpbsmith(a)verizon.net> wrote:
From: geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>
Who's going to create these million articles
on garage bands?
With 100,000
new garage band fans creating them we'll have no problem
maintaining a
million articles on garage bands. I think realistically it'll be
at least a
couple orders of magnitude smaller in both figures, but as long as
we don't
allow automated creation of these articles the resources to
maintain the
articles will scale right along with the creation of them.
Anthony
You assume that the people who create these articles:
a)stick around
b)know all the wikimarkup and stuff
c) Know all the verifiability and citing sources and stuff (or are
willing to learn)
d) Have "building a free encyclopedia" as a significant component in
the mix of motives that drives them
e) _Care_ about article quality
f) Care _enough_ to spend some time putting in _work_ on the articles
they create
Like I said, of course I assume this. If we don't make this assumption,
what's the point of allowing new editors at all?
If an article grows outdated and obsolete, *then* we should consider
deleting it. We shouldn't delete it immediately upon creation just because
it *might* get outdated.