[WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

[FT2]

On a spectrum of "what belongs in Wikipedia", the majority of experienced
editors these days probably fall in a similar area that agrees not
everything belongs in Wikipedia. Not every building, person, business,
fictional character, news item, minor band, aspiring politician, has a
place. There are graduations around exactly where the specific line gets
drawn in certain areas, but by and large that was an open issue long ago,
mostly old and archaic these days. Ina manner of speech, we've agreed that
the middle ages ended around 1500 - 1600. While occasionally its an issue
"which side should this item fall into", mostly the criteria are agreed, the
broad conclusions drawn.

FT2





On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:04 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/8/12 Cathy Edwards <Cathy.Edwards at bbc.co.uk>:
>
> >> To add to and enrich the programme we'd really love to interview a UK
> >> Wikipedian. We're looking for a passionate Deletionist - someone who
> >> identifies with the goals of Deletionism to create a high quality
> >> encyclopaedia, and does a lot of this kind of quality control
> >> themselves - perhaps someone who is a member of the Association of
> >> Deletionist Wikipedians.
>
>
> Does such a person actually exist, self-identified? It appears from
> similar discussion on wikimediauk-l that it doesn't, in fact.
>
> (I suspect some corners of the media won't care, and we actually
> considered picking someone to claim to be a "deletionist" and go on
> programmes talking sense instead. This is an eample of the interests
> of the media *not* being the interests of the encylcopedia at al, and
> us having to work around that.)
>
> Some seem to call others "deletionists" for deleting stuff that they
> don't like. But as someone who's generally fairly inclusionist (and
> has been called a "radical inclusionist" and gone "wtf" at the
> notion), I can tell you that reviewing 24 hours of
> [[Special:Newpages]] will convince you that lots of pages deserve
> death by cleansing fire as absolutely quickly as possible.
>
> So we're talking about increasingly fine gradations. And basically,
> the media has seized upon this as an interesting and story-worthy idea
> about four or five years after anyone actually working on Wikipedia
> cared.
>
>
> - d.
>
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