[WikiEN-l] The Economist on "notability"

[Ian Woollard]

On 07/03/2008, Ben Yates <ben.louis.yates at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's instructive to look at the history of Everything2 -- clearly
>  there is *some* lower limit on the notability of concepts that can be
>  included, because if there isn't you eventually get articles called
>  "what is your favorite color" and containing "blue ~~~ green ~~~
>  yellow! ~~~"  On everything2, these were called "getting-to-know-you
>  nodes" and purged relatively early on.

Yes, everything2 mostly or partly uses a voting system for its
notability, and to say that it is not without its problems is a bit of
an understatement. I'm not sure what the precise deletion rate is, but
I found maybe 1/3 of my articles were deleted out of hand. Often I
would resubmit them with relatively minor changes and they would get
good scores.

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