[WikiEN-l] Oh well, so much for BLP

[George Herbert]

On 5/14/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/14/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > David Gerard wrote:
> > >
> > http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping_the_future.html
> > >
> > > "... and explain why, sooner or later, everyone in this room is going
> > > to end up in Wikipedia."
> >
> > It's always disappointing to me when outsiders "get it" better than the
> > insiders do these days.
> >
> > -Jeff
>
>
> They're not getting it at all. If we lose editorial control and include
> absolutely everyone, we won't be an encyclopedia any longer. There's nothing
> stopping people from making a people wiki, but it doesn't have to be
> Wikipedia. You actually need to have done something noteworthy to be listed
> here, and there's plenty of people who don't even meet such a basic
> definition.
>
> Mgm

Might be an interesting project/experiment to do a
notability-not-required en.wikibios.org project or somesuch, with our
other editing standards.

On the other hand, trying to track down vandals and libel through 300m
odd US entries seems daunting.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com