[WikiEN-l] I'm disappointed in Wikipedia.

[Ray Saintonge]

The Mangoe wrote:

>On 6/16/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>Sorry, misread.  Are you suggesting that the project won't survive
>>with hundreds of thousands of additional entries?  I still disagree.
>>    
>>
>Hundreds of thousands of them, and every railroad station that ever
>existed, and every town in the world, and all of their mayors-- ever--
>and so forth. The only thing that holds this back is that information
>on most of these people and things takes enough effort to prevent any
>but the obsessive from dredging it up. But if it were all entered, the
>place would be filled with clutter.
>
Clutter perhaps, but harmless clutter at worst.  There are people 
interested in local history who would appreciate knowing who the former 
mayors were, and what made them special at the time that they lived. 
(Can't say about mayors, but I do have publications with lists of 
postmasters.)   I admit too that it takes a fair amount of obsession to 
dig it all up, but if an editor has it I'm not going to complain.  It 
all still needs to be verifiable, but that should be no problem in most 
of these situations.

Ec