--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
We had a long discussion on wikipedia-l about how and when articles should be merged. I believe now that we have more articles than most paper encyclopedias (technically) we need to enter "phase 2" of (En-)Wikipedia's development, which is structuring, merging, improving etc. the existing material. Maybe even removing links to non-existent articles in some cases (e.g. album titles) to discourage creation of database-like stubs. Of course there are still huge gaps in our coverage (as is, the article about Catholicism doesn't even mention the Vatican), but many if not most of the essential topics have at least stub articles.
There should be a WikiProject for this phase 2 effort with clear guidelines and goals. I encourage you to start this WikiProject if you have the time and motivation to do so. I suggest the name "WikiProject Patchwork".
Erik
Sounds good, but it shouldn't be called "phase 2". Much of our content development is still incomplete. We should focus on content development, and do WikiProject Patchwork as a side project. -LDan
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