On 2/15/06, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
I am not sure that price is part of notability in software; I have written non notable but expensive software.
Is there any discussion of notability for software? How many software products do we want in Wikipedia? I would have thought several thousand, if not several tens of thousands could easily be justified. We are, after all, an encyclopaedia. Is our aim not to produce a consultable body of knowledge? I'm a little confused about why we seem to keep trying to raise the bar on notability.
Yes it is frustrating that so much work goes into trivial subjects and (despite what some people seem to think) there are vast areas without even stubs or redlinks. Someone pointed out to me the other day that we dont have an article on [[Scandinavian design]], the genesis of among other things [[Ikea]]. I have books lying around my computer that would provide sources for hundreds of missing articles. Must write one now.
Heh, good idea. My apartment is a tribute to [[Ikea|Scandinavian design]].
Steve