[WikiEN-l] What Readers Say on Inclusion

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Tue Oct 4 20:55:01 UTC 2005


MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:

>That's what a phonebook is mostly for. Also, yes, the world, not the
>US. But how can such a thing be verifiable. Phone numbers and
>addresses change like the plague.
>
>With the kinks ironed out it may be a Wikimedia project, but it's
>certainly not encyclopedic material.
>
It's not policy that will keep material like this out of Wikipedia, but 
the incredible boredom of the task.  If somebody wants to start it, 
that's fine but I doubt that they will be at it after a month.  Six 
months later it can probably be deleted as an abandoned experiment.

Ec




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