[WikiEN-l] Write stuff and take pictures!

[Todd Allen]

I'm not so sure. I like the idea of undue weight in NPOV. I think it's
an important principle. I think people forget that "edit" often means
"cut" (in fact, for most who have the position of editor, their major
role is to cut and exclude). That's not a -bad- part of the editing
process, it's a necessary one. People tend to throw around "delete"
like it's a dirty word, when really an editing process without it just
leads to confusing, disorganized, crufty material.

Or to put it more shortly, sometimes we're giving undue weight to
something by including it at all.

On 11/5/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/4/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Of course they're worth being documented. That doesn't mean they're
> > worth being documented -on Wikipedia-. I have no problem with blog
> > indexes, band fansites, web directories, telephone books, or any other
> > form of documentation. That doesn't mean we should be any of those.
>
> I think that any band who would be included in a specialist
> encyclopedia of their genre/era should be included on Wikipedia, at
> least briefly. No need for lots of unverifiable detail.
>
> -Matt
>
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