[WikiEN-l] What is happening to the community

[geni]

On 06/03/2008, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  *"The British Library is known to hold over 150 million items."
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> I don't think we want an article on every single arrowhead, pottery
>  fragment or piece of flint.

Those are now held by the British museum. 150 million is books and
book like items (pamphlets and maps for example)
>
>  >  *"the Internet Movie Database claims to have records on 549,131 titles
>  >  and 2,280,301 names."
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> We definitely want that level of depth I think. Particularly since we
>  can at least cite the IMDB for all of them...

IMDB is kinda dicey see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_IMDb

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geni