[WikiEN-l] Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 3/30/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/30/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> >
> > geni wrote:
> > >
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28news%29#Robert_Mugabe.27s_daughter_-_news_story_originating_from_Wikipedia.3F
> >
> > So that's the best example I have seen in a while.
>
>
> Wow. Just wow. This is both exhilarating and frightening - exhilarating in
> that what we do on WP can have a tremendous effect on the world, and
> frightening in that in cases like this, this can be a tremendous negative
> effect.
>
> I think raising the notability bar without moving our bios of living
> people
> offWP will be far too controversial and chaotic. I would be in favour of
> doc's proposal to create a separate wiki for living people - it could be a
> Wikia wiki or something run by WMF. The point is to divert this offWP so
> as
> to get people specialising in this sort of thing to make the policies for
> articles on living people. (Specialisation of labour seems to be a good
> idea
> here.) Then we will be free to raise the notability bar on WP as
> arbitrarily
> as we like without worrying that we will be getting rid of useful
> information.


How do you figure that raising the notability bar will not get rid of useful
information? Raising the bar will lose useful articles depending on the
criteria that are being used. It doesn't matter if it's located on WP or
elsewhere.

Mgm