The Mangoe wrote:
On 6/16/07, Anthony <wikimail(a)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