On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:22:17 Toby Bartels wrote:
Robert Merkel wrote in part:
(Hopefully we would *have* an article on Silent Spring by this point, given that we seem to agree that it deserves to be listed on [[1962]] itself.)
I also suspect that, if old hands get into arguments with rabid fans, that rather than "You need to write an article on this book before listing it.", the discussion will be more effective it goes like this:
- "This is not a reasonable subject for an encyclopaedia article."
- "It is too!!1 Robert Heinlein is the l33test writer ever, d00d."
- "OK, then prove it: write an interesting, substantive article on this particular book, and ''then'' list it."
After all, if they meet a challenge put like *that*, then it will all be worth it.
Agreed, this will be a useful technique for cases like this, but not the complete solution.
After taking the discussion on this issue on board, I'm going to try and write a policy proposal for Year in Review that I'll post on meta sometime this weekend.