In a message dated 7/22/2008 3:09:30 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, alecmconroy@gmail.com writes:
What would it take to set up a new project that has less-stringent notability requirements? >>
------------------------------------------- It would fail imho to achieve critical mass. As soon as you start with "less-stringent" you get instruction creep. That is what's happed with several policies. You must have imho, a core principle state that "Notability will not be a consideration" I.E. we cover everything.
Otherwise it's just Wikipedia-with-a-bit-more.
Will Johnson
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On 7/22/08, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
alecmconroy@gmail.com writes:
What would it take to set up a new project that has less-stringent notability requirements?
It would fail imho to achieve critical mass. As soon as you start with "less-stringent" you get instruction creep. That is what's happed with several policies. You must have imho, a core principle state that "Notability will not be a consideration" I.E. we cover everything.
Otherwise it's just Wikipedia-with-a-bit-more.
That's basically what I was thinking. I concur a strong "Notability isn't a factor in keep/delete" would be a good wording. One could go even more radical and say "Article quality isn't a factor in keep/delete". Articles written from not just from NPOV, but also "Editorial point of view"? I wonder if the legal requirements of BLP would still apply if articles were "signed" or "owned" by specific users? Obviously, individuals who write the articles would face a certain liability, but mayhaps the foundation would be as immune from BLP issues as the phone company is immune from slander that travels over their long distance lines.
Alec
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
It would fail imho to achieve critical mass. As soon as you start with "less-stringent" you get instruction creep. That is what's happed with several policies. You must have imho, a core principle state that "Notability will not be a consideration" I.E. we cover everything.
tvtropes.org doesn't cover everything, and has as one principle "there is no such thing as notability". It seems to work regardless, and is fairly successful.
2008/7/22 Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net:
tvtropes.org doesn't cover everything, and has as one principle "there is no such thing as notability". It seems to work regardless, and is fairly successful.
Sure specialist wikis are more able to do that. Wikipedia however is far more generalist which results in very different conditions.