[Wikipedia-l] Non-notability "abuse"

[Dan Bolser]

I agree with Ian Tresman. Many 'editors' are too quick to try to cut
articles that do not warrant removal. 'not-notable' is just one of the
things people seem to like to say. I don't think it should be so hard
to create content, and it should not be so easy to get it deleted.
People will *always* bitch about how crummy the quality of WP is, and
they will always be wrong.

Just MHO.


Dan.


On 17/09/2007, Ian Tresman <ian2 at knowledge.co.uk> wrote:
> At 11:46 17/09/2007, you wrote:
> >On 17/09/2007, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The magazine Pensée is notable, and nobody is questioning that. The
> > > article brought up for deletion was "Pensée (Immanuel Velikovsky
> > > Reconsidered)",  a "special series of ten issues of the magazine
> > > Pensée" devoted to a particular topic.
> >
> >I think the interesting and idiosyncratic assumption that "all
> >published books are suitable for an article" kicks in here. Do
> >non-English projects make this same assumption? Does it vary between
> >fiction and nonfiction? Enquiring minds want to know...
>
> If Wikipedia were a paper-based encyclopedia,
> then I think there is no doubt that there would
> be certain selection criteria. Wikipedia is not
> paper, and consequently has decided that if it is
> (a) Verifiable (b) (non-trivial) Reliable
> sources, (c) written neutrally, then it is acceptable.
>
> I noted that Wikipedia has 1000 article on all
> 1000 of the "top" asteroids (and many more), few
> of which are any more notable pieces of rock than
> another. In this instance, Wikipedia is acting as
> a catalogue, and many of the articles are merely
> "stubs". But that's fine by me, I'm sure asteroid #547 is notable to someone.
>
> Likewise, I see no problem Wikipedia summarising
> every book that was ever published. It already
> summarised every episode of many obscure TV programmes.
>
> Is this encyclopedic? Wikipedia is not your typical encyclopedia.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian Tresman
> www.plasma-universe.com
>
>
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