[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia - An infinite number of lists

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:30:21 +0000, "Fred Bauder"
<fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:

>You greatly underestimate the efficiency of our deletion procedure and its capacity to adapt. Faced with a plethora of lists, it will kick into gear. Such lists are usually original research anyway. Who publishes such lists? 

Indeed.  And if the subject of the list (e.g. birds native to Chicago)
is not itself encyclopaedic - i.e. if we have no article on birds
native to Chicago - then the list itself may well be deleted as
unencyclopaedic, arbitrary, original research or whatever.

Guy (JzG)
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