[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's destiny

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Fri Feb 24 02:03:21 UTC 2006


Steve Bennett wrote:
> I see we have still made little progress in deciding why exactly we
> want to have rules on notability, or what notability means in the
> Wikipedia context. I'm not disagreeing with you, but I do note that
> many others seem to have very different views on why certain subjects
> should or should not feature in Wikipedia.
> 
> For what it's worth, I feel we should begin by posing ourselves the
> question: How likely is it that someone will come to Wikipedia looking
> for information on this topic. On Peppers, I would say "fairly
> likely".

That is certainly one question we should ask.

Another question is: does human dignity matter at all?


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