[Foundation-l] Message to community about community decline

[Ray Saintonge]

On 03/29/11 1:43 AM, Yann Forget wrote:
> 2011/3/29 ????<wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk>:
>> Ah there is the reason, the sum of all human knowledge is approaching
>> completion. Well done to all.
> We are very far from that.
> All the issue is that of notability.
>
> If we apply the current criteria, which is mainly applied on Western
> subjects, to other parts of the world, we could have 10 times more
> articles (villages and towns, local customs and food, etc.).

By way of a reality check I just looked at the Spanish "Enciclopedia 
Universal Illustrada", Vol. 51 published in 1926.  This volume includes 
the not uncommon Spanish name "Reyes".  It contains 25 biographical 
articles with that simple surname. (I didn't look at the various 
compounds so frequently found in Spanish.) Of these 25, Mexican author 
Alfonso Reyes has an article in both en- and es-wp. Mexican general 
Bernardo Reyes appears only in en-wp. I saw no trace of the other 23 in 
either project.

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