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

[Anthony]

On 9/24/06, Robth <robth1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> AaronSw's survey results have shown that most material is contributed
> by drive-by editors, but most formatting, wikifying, etc.--i.e. actually
> incorporating the new stuff into the encyclopedia--is done by core
> community members.  Notability provides a method of callibrating
> the amount of incoming content at a level that our existing group
> of core editors can actually handle and assimilate.  The question,
> in my opinion, when considering the inclusion of an article, is not
> "is this subject notable enough to be worth writing/reading about",
> but rather "if we include this subject and all equally notable subjects,
> will our regulars be able to enforce the core policies on the resulting
> influx of articles.
>
I've always found it's a much simpler task to format and wikify an
article than it is to run it through AfD.

Anthony