[WikiEN-l] Looking for thoughts on statistics

[Ian Woollard]

On 29/03/2010, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> Even for the US, about 80% of the members of state legislatures
> historically are not covered. For the current Michigan House of
> Representatives, only 50% of the current members have articles, and
> almost none of the earlier ones.
> this is very low-lying fruit, well within the reach of any beginner.

There's the question as to how notable they really are; would you ever
get significant coverage for most of them? Is part of Wikipedia's
mission really to have all of the members of congress, or would we
just link out to that?

My suspicion is that whatever the policies say, a lot of this would get AFDd.

In any case, an encyclopedia is supposed to summarise knowledge.
Unless a particular person is really important to that *summary* for
more than one thing they probably shouldn't be in the Wikipedia.

> David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG

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-Ian Woollard