[WikiEN-l] User:FritzpollBot creating millions of new

Haza-w@enwiki en.haza-w at ip3.co.uk
Mon Jun 2 17:58:44 UTC 2008


Steve Summit wrote:
> Just so.  We should remember that "notability", and our
> attempts to objectify it via reference to second-party
> reliable sources, are only means to an end.  The end goal is:
> utility to our readers.  Get hung up on notability if you like,
> but the encyclopedic inclusivity criterion I like to use is,
> "Might someone ever look this up and expect/want/need to find
> this information?

Surely WP:IINFO applies here, however? Wikipedia cannot be an all-inclusive
cornucopia of useful tidbits of information. Adding a plethora of stubs
which feature little more than co-ordinates, a region link and a map
thumbnail are effective going to make Wikipedia an online map searching
facility.



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