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

[Ray Saintonge]

Haza-w at enwiki wrote:
> 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.
Not really.  What makes you think that we would limit these small 
articles to geographical ones?

These stubs become the basis for future expansion or writing more about 
the subject.  I admit that many of these will stay small for a very long 
time, but I don't see how encouraging comprehensiveness can be damaging 
to the 'pedia.

Ec