[WikiEN-l] Schools, notability, inclusionism, deletionism, etc.

[David Gerard]

On 24/09/06, Robth <robth1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>   Some subjects aren't a problem;
> very few Rambot articles get taken over by hagiographers or
> POV warriors.


Town articles do get taken over by local boosterism. Look at
User:Concrete Cowboy's fine work enforcing the Local Point Of View on
any article to do with Milton Keynes.


  A fair number of school articles do end up
> contravening NPOV.  We should draw conclusions about the
> effect of including these various article types based on the
> current state of similar articles that we already have, and draw up
> whatever standards we need to make sure that we can manage
> the material we take on in that subject area in the future.


Hitting with a verifiability hammer is a good first move for those.
But if we start cutting subject areas because they attract POV
warriors, then it's time to mark everything about Israel, Palestine or
Linux for removal.


- d.