[WikiEN-l] User:FritzpollBot creating millions of new
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Tue Jun 3 17:05:39 UTC 2008
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
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