[WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

[Andrew Gray]

2009/8/13 FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com>:
> 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,

It's interesting to note that, on the whole, everyone is an
inclusionist about something, and a deletionist about something else.

There's hardly anyone so big on inclusion that they won't occasionally
say "god, no, please, delete that article on a collapsed band from
1973 which once opened for someone you've heard of"; conversely, the
people who spend a lot of time sending material to AFD as "nn, delete"
will have their little pet hobbies of writing articles on a topic that
you or I might consider insanely overspecific and not worth keeping.

The way the deletionism-inclusionism debate *now* seems focused is
things like minor BLPs. There's a thriving debate there, still, if you
want to look for it.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk