[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia and detail

[David Gerard]

Timwi (timwi at gmx.net) [050529 07:23]:

> Incidentally, noone has yet suggested to delete [[Time Hierarchy 
> Theorem]], or indeed any other article, for making Wikipedia "too detailed".
 

The more ardent deleters have indeed put articles up for deletion for being
"too detailed".


> >we run the risk of making the basic information inaccessible to the
> >vast majority of the users who are only interested in the basics.

> People who are only interested in the basics can still look up only the 
> basics.  It's a question of organisation, not a question of inclusion.
 

Yep. There's nothing wrong with subarticles of subarticles.


> >There is a place in the world for large amounts of detailed material,
> >but this shouldn't be the goal of an encyclopedia.
 
> Funny, and somehow I thought that the goal of Wikipedia is to "collect 
> the sum of human knowledge".


Haven't you heard? Our new slogan is "Wikipedia is full. Go away." Now only
*deserving* articles are kept (whatever that means); all others apparently
have to make their case or be deleted in a consensus vote of three versus
one.


- d.