On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:34:20 +0200, Ulrich Fuchs mail@ulrich-fuchs.de wrote:
As an encyclopaedia, we should reduce noise. Instead we are creating noise by accepting articles on any subject. For me - opposing that noise-accepting-policy since one and a half years now - that outsiders statement is very interesting.
Noise- what is noise? Perhaps you don't care for articles on the [[chicken sexer]], and you may not care about an article on [[Badger Badger Badger]], or [[AYBABTU]], but who are you to decide what is a valid topic? (Who am I?)
Many seem to feel that as long as a topic can have an encyclopedic type article written about it, it should probably be there. What is the alternative to "accepting articles on any subject"? Would you have us replace Votes for Deletion with, say, Votes for Inclusion, where people have to propose a new page and get it approved before it's up?
Wikipedia doesn't work that way. Wikipedia is fast. You edit it and it's there- pow. A fundamental change such as that you propose is not going to happen. Perhaps you'd like to read [[Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks]] and create your own site where you can decide how to deal with this issue.