[WikiEN-l] On Completeness and Restrictiveness (was Re: GNAADeleted!)

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

David Gerard wrote
 
> Our breadth is a strength, not a weakness. We don't have to have a
> 30,000-byte article on something to be a useful source on it.

We have been trying to empty the ocean of Google with the teaspoons of stubs of a couple of paras, from the early days. This indeed is one of our great strengths. 

In other words we have people willing to do this, on _anything_ really; and we have other people willing to see that this pile of stubs - the stack of filing cards filled in at the library, as it used to be for scholars, has value. In a hypertexted world, it does have the great value, that the pigeonholes created fill up gradually.

Charles

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