[WikiEN-l] We need a policy against vote-stacking

[geni]

On 5/8/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/8/06, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > * Delete, subject is not appropriate for an encyclopedia.
> > * Keep, subject _is_ appropriate for an encyclopedia.
> >
> > which is about as subjective a standard as you can get.  We can
> > certainly appoint someone to judge the relative arguments and decree
> > an outcome, but the question is fundamentally one of differing
> > perceptions of what Wikipedia should strive to be, not one of simply
> > applying existing policy.
>
> Perhaps it should be more "subject is not appropriate for *this*
> encyclopaedia *at this time*". There may come a time when Wikipedia
> has 40,000,000 articles, including in depth articles on  tens of
> thousands of garage bands. At such a time, it may be appropriate to
> include them.
>
> Just another thought - could we consider forcing an AfD to be a
> fact-finding mission about a single question? That is, the nominator
> asserts that the subject is not notable. The comments should all be
> about the notability of the subject - if a cogent argument can be made
> that the subject is notable, then it should be kept. Remarks about
> verifiability, spelling etc would then be kept out of that discussion.
>
> Steve


Nope. Apart from anything else questions on copyright status are
always relivant.

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geni