[WikiEN-l] On Completeness and Restrictiveness (was Re: GNAADeleted!)
The Cunctator
cunctator at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 23:06:32 UTC 2006
On 12/1/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/1/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes. The *breadth* of en:wp's coverage is actually a reason I've heard
> > from many who speak another language natively for preferring en:wp as
> > a reference - there's more likely to be something, anything, on a
> > given subject here than anywhere else, and a better something than
> > you'd get from a Google search.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Are you willing to stick your neck out and say whether a two-sentence
> stub on GNAA is a good thing or a bad thing?
It is a good thing or a bad thing.
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