On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:02 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
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An object takes on increased significance, with the number of publications mentioning it. Do we want a work that has a list of the 3 billion known stars numbers each with their own articles showing their apparent brightness, density and distance from the Earth? It would swamp the entire project. "Random page" would become worthless.
So we focus on what others have determined to be important, based on the number of citations to it.
Have you seen the discussion about towns and village stubs on ANI?
Sorry, should have provided a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ANI#Editor_creates_100.2C000_or_more_...
Carcharoth