On 5/5/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/5/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
So you are saying there is no difference between Eton and Sacred Heart school, Nowheresville
The article on the former would probably be much more interesting. And there are probably lots of people who would be more likely to care about Sacred Heart school than Eton. Hell, there are millions of people who've never heard of Eton.
However you must conceed there is a difference. The reasoning for supporting the existance of an article on Eton need not apply for all schools.
For all the standard reasons like Wikipedia is not paper, inclusion of any single article does almost infinitesimal direct harm.
I can think of quite a few that could do considerable harm.
Sorry, "inclusion of any single article which might otherwise be deleted for lack of notability"...
So say a "John doe is a pedophile" article (nn 3 google hits) would do no harm?
Vaporize. Transition to unarticle.
Unarticlize? Dearticlify?
Steve
The "ize" risks starting spelling wars. The first four letters of dearticlify risk breaking [[WP:TOE]]. Vaporize has a nice 1984 ring to it.
-- geni