On 5/18/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
It's easy enough to subscribe (so you can post) but set no-mail (so you don't get a flood) and read answers on the web archive:
[snip] Thanks for pointing that out. That will be useful in the future when I want to follow a single subject on the enlist.
Sorry for not forwarding the full original message when I replied to wikien-l. I cc'd it there because the actual dispute and disputants are pretty much on en:, so it was the obvious relevant place. I see that it is about the whole project also.
I don't give a hoot about schools. I only noticed them because people were voting keep on stubs about a playing field at a school and substubs on elementary schools that haven't been expanded in a year of existence and justifying these votes by saying that the subjects are verifiable and NPOV.
I don't argue that they are verifiable (well, although I wouldn't be shocked if there were a few hoaxes in the mass of articles being voted on), but I really wonder if I understand what an encyclopedia is if we are not to ever use notability as a criteria for entry.