[WikiEN-l] Asteroids

[ScottL]

Keith Old wrote:
> On 8/31/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8/30/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Sounds good. But fergoshsakes just put the info in a table. Worst
>>> thing about the town rambot articles is that they're pretty crappy
>>> prose but it never gets edited, ever; second is that the demographic
>>> information came from a table and should be presented as a table, not
>>> as crappy prose.
>> Yeah. I bet over time the crappy prose of all these town articles will
>> slowly be edited in different directions, becoming different, equally
>> crappy, prose.
>>
>> I was tempted to edit one once, then realised how many times I'd have
>> to repeat my work. Eek.
>>
>> And since we're having a whinge, the other problem with an article
>> like that is you think it's actually fairly complete. You'd think that
>> 3-4 paragraphs of text would be a decent amount for a small town.
>> Whereas it covers the demographics, and that's it - no history, no
>> geography, no "the construction of a Walmart caused uproar in 2005".
>>
>> Steve
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> 
> G'day folks,
> 
> Personally, I think that a comprehensive coverage of towns is one of our
> strengths at least in the first world. If there was verifiable concern in a
> town over the construction of a Walmart, I have no problem with our article
> saying it.
> 
> If someone wants to write about the history and geography of their local
> area from reliable sources more power to their arm. We have had a number of
> Featured Articles on towns and things that wouldn't be listed in traditional
> encyclopedias. This, in my view, is a good thing.
> 
> We probably need more on local areas in third world countries but that will
> come. We had a featured article on Central Asian history recently for
> example which is encouraging.
> 
> If someone wants to write articles on asteroids and other astronomical
> bodies from reliable sources, good on them. If people looking for that
> information come to Wikipedia, that is beneficial.
> 
> It definitely falls within my understanding of the Sum of all Human
> Knowledge.
> 
> Regards to all
> 
> 
> Keith Old

   Yea but, I agree with the statement above that such imported data is 
best represented as an infobox.  So I suspect most of these will be one 
sentence and one info-box stubs.  That is a very tempting AfD target to 
some.  Perhaps irresistible.

SKL