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

[Ray Saintonge]

Michael Santora wrote:

>The number of articles which Wikipedia can have is
>limited by the number of at least marginally notable
>and verifiable things which exist.  After every
>notable person, place, movie, scientific topic, and so
>on have their own article, we'll run out of things to
>write about.  Whether this will happen at 2 million, 3
>million, 4 million, it will happen.
>
You are grossly underestimating the number of articles.  There are more 
than a million species of insects alone, and each should have an 
article. Levelling off is not likely to happen until we exceed 100 million.

Ec