Many corporations (and other new editors) enter articles from which it is impossible to to realize what might make them notable. These pages are of course deleted. To what extent is it a possible function of WP to help them write a meaningful article that would a/ conform to our practices and prejudices and, b/ say something useful? Perhaps templates would be the way--for bios as well, and for schools, etc. Perhaps we need a "write a new article" interface more meaningful than the one that presently appears? DGG
On 1/29/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Elly Waterman wrote:
I admit being a very new reader of this list, so I do not know its conventions. But could you please refrain from unneccessary talking? My mailbox is so full already... Thanks, Elly
If you're subscribed to high-volume mailing lists like this one you may want to try using an email program that can do filtering to automatically sort through incoming mail and put it into appropriate folders. I've used both Eudora and Thunderbird for this. I'm subscribed to three high-volume mailing lists and dozens of less active ones but between the filters I use to separate out that stuff and the spam filters built into Thunderbird I only have one or two "unclassifiable" emails left in my inbox each day (these are almost always personal emails sent directly to me by other individuals).
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