[Wikipedia-l] Need to finalize image policy soon and work on article definition

[Daniel Mayer]

I think that the proposed image use policy is ready for list approval and 
final changes and/or discussion. Please see:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy

A lack of any posts about the proposed image policy will be viewed as 
acceptance of this pages as-is (yeah, like that is going to happen; I had to 
say it anyway). 

Another thing that I would like list members to look at is an article 
definition FAQ that is being worked on that, when complete will be sublinked 
under the first occurrence of the word "article" on the main page (otherwise 
the statement "you can edit any article right now" might seem odd to a newbie 
when the main page is obviously not editable). 

See:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article

What is really needed now a short section explaining what the automatic 
statistics actually consider to be articles. One thing that has already been 
mentioned is that it looks like disambiguation pages are considered to be 
articles by the software when very few humans would consider index pages to 
be either encyclopedia of almanac-like articles. There is also a question as 
to whether a list without any commas in a "list of" article could potentially 
/not/ be considered to be an article by the software. 

BTW, it would be nice if the statistics could somehow estimate the numbers of 
the two types of articles wikipedia has; encyclopedia articles and supporting 
almanac-like articles (lists).  

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)