I'd like to know what you define as "noise". Is it Rambot? Stubs on celebrities? How can you tell noise from articles that you just aren't interested in?

Meelar

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Basically, what is happening here is the building

of a parallel World Wide

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Web inside the wikipedia.org domain

And actually he is perfectly right: That *is* our biggest problem. Not the copying, not errors, not the missing editors, not the enthusiasts he mentions. But the "superfluous trivia". Our problem is noise, in en: even more as in de:. The noise repells qualified authors and editors. This is the reason why the article quality does not increase the way that should be expected given the idea behind wikipedia and the popularity and it already has.

As an encyclopaedia, we should reduce noise. Instead we are creating noise by accepting articles on any subject. For me - opposing that noise-accepting-policy since one and a half years now - that outsiders statement is very interesting.

Uli

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