[WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

[Cathy Edwards]

This is all so interesting - thanks.

I think I have a good idea why BLP are a hot topic of debate in this
area, but why do you think fiction is contentious - because it's in
danger of unbalancing the encyclopedia?

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[mailto:wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dalton
Sent: 17 August 2009 18:29
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

2009/8/17 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Cathy
Edwards<Cathy.Edwards at bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> 1. The inclusionist / deletionist debate peaked a few years ago
>
> It did? Maybe I haven't been paying attention. I was under the 
> impression that notability guidelines were still a topic of heated 
> debate as regards articles on fiction topics. Or has a guideline 
> finally been thrashed out?

The original debate was global, there were people that believed our
standards should be much stricter all over and there were people the
believed our standards should be much more relaxed all over. That global
debate finished years ago, there are now separate debates regarding
different topics (BLPs and fiction are the two main ones, I think).
Classifying people as "inclusionist" or "deletionist" doesn't work in
the current environment since someone might be on one side for one topic
and the other for others.

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