On 3/30/07, John Lee <johnleemk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/30/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28news%29#Robert_Mugab…
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