[Wikipedia-l] Re: 90000 articles
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Wed Nov 13 08:53:47 UTC 2002
Digital Addictions Software wrote:
>>I think we should implement the greatly-pared-down counting scheme we were
>>discussing on the list earlier. We don't have 90K articles. We have
>>about 50K articles and about 40K geographical entries automatically
>>created from a database.
>>
>I guess I just take these things personally, but many of those geographical
>entries are more articles than those other 50k non-geographical articles. They
>have more information. People are just uncomfortable because they don't like
>the data because it does not interest them or because it was created in a mass
>quantity. No one complains when others write articles that have two or three
>sentences. In fact no one complained when I made these articles on a small
>scale, in fact I got a number of people who told me it was a great thing. I
>think we need to stop separating the geographics articles from everything else.
> They are all articles and should be treated as such. If you don't like them,
>add to them.
>
As one who feels that your additions were appropriate, I fully support
their inclusion as proper articles.
There's a question of anti-robotism involved. They like having robots
do their drudge work, but they wouldn't want their computer to marry one.
Eclecticology
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