Peter Miller wrote: > I agree. I think we need to adopt a Wikipedia concept of 'notability'. For > example... A wood is notable, a large established solitary tree in a park > might be notable, but a nettle is not. Is a rare plant notable? I would > suggest it is not notable in OSM itself.
I'm afraid I see the notability criteria as one of Wikipedia's biggest problems so I would hate to see OSM go the same way. I've seen too many genuinely useful articles get blown away because someone decided they covered non-notable subjects, to the point that I gave up editing Wikipedia. The point is: why should anyone care about notability so long as the data is useful, accurate and maintained? Wikipedia's deletion policies are deeply flawed: There are a group of users who make it their mission to delete articles. When they nominate an article for deletion, most of the people who vote either wrote the article, or one of the group who's sole mission is to delete stuff - no one else cares enough about the deletion procedure to take part. So the majority of the time, well written articles get deleted purely because of the massive bias in the quorum who vote on deletions. I sincerely hope OSM doesn't decide to go down a similar route. -- - Steve xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nexusuk.org/ Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk