[Wikipedia-l] Entries for deletion.... issues from the Third World

[J.L.W.S. The Special One]

Requiring verifiability creates systemic bias. To be more accurate, it
enforces the systemic bias of existing references.

On 1/9/07, Michael Billington <michael.billington at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> >
> > Andre Engels wrote:
> > > I guess I should not go into the examples, but in this case my opinion
> > is
> > > that 50,000 would be too high a limit,  I myself would be thinking of
> > 2,000
> > > or 5,000.
> >
> > Absolutely.  Perhaps for the U.S. and parts of Germany we are
> > approaching full coverage of all places with 5,000 people.  But
> > for India I doubt if we have covered all cities with 50,000.
> > Nothing stops the limit from being set at 500 too.  But a lower
> > limit could be questioned a lot more easily than a higher one.
> > Then again, some places with 50,000 people are less notable than
> > some very small places.  But if you can point to the fact that a
> > place has 50,000 inhabitants (or was the birth places for a
> > president), then it is a lot easier to defend its notability.
> >
>
> On one side we have western places. For instance, Wikipedia has an article
> about my town, political division and local member of parliament. My town
> and surrounding ones (all of which have wiki articles) have a population of
> 1,500 or so. Rambot has written articles about towns 1/10th of the size of
> mine.
>
> However, whilst lists of Australian, German or US (and more) topics are
> mostly blue links, there are lists populated almost entirely by red links,
> such as [[List of Sudanese singers]]. Unfortunately, very few or no reliable
> sources will probably be found to warrant articles about these singers (at
> least not on the internet), and the only way to get coverage of a large
> portion of them would be through original research (which we can't do
> obviously), or to find print sources. So does anyone on this mailing list
> happen to have access to archives for a Sudanese newspaper? It would be nice
> if we could get more things like [[WP:AWNB]] for smaller countries, so we
> can find people more local* who may very well be able to walk to a library
> to find sources and add articles. That could work wonders for coverage :-)
>
> *And I may be a bit too ambitious in assuming we have editors from just
> about every country
>
> Michael Billington
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