Delirium wrote:
Ah, but it has happened: a group of people have decided to add literally hundreds of pages on victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. My worry is that if we allow this, there is nothing to stop literally millions of other pages from being eventually added. There are, for example, quite a few groups interested in preserving the memories of those who died in the Holocaust; I don't consider it unlikely that at some point some of them will discover Wikipedia and begin a concerted effort to add at least thousands of biographies of people who have nothing particularly notable
You worry about that? 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!
Maybe none of you would read it. Maybe you all would think it was rubbish. But *I* would read it, and *I* would wholehearted enjoy it.
BL
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. :-)
Ec