What harms the public view of Wikipedia is not articles on minor subjects, or on matters i anyone will understand are of significance only to fans. What really harms the perceived quality of Wikipedia is promotional and inaccurate articles. almost everyone can realize that the content of a reference work may include things they do not themselves want--but they do expect it to be both honest and accurate.
We could decide either for or against the detailed coverage of popular culture, but what we cannot tolerate is the diversion of effort in dealing with this. There is of course an obvious solution, which is to silence everyone who does not agree with me, but that's not going to fly. What we need is some way of not just forming a compromise but having it persist--otherwise any solution will be back to the same point in a few months. Arb com apparently does not think it is capable of this, but I don't see how else it can be done--they should try a little more boldness. Since they'll be criticised whatever they choose to do or not to do, they might as well decide. On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:21 PM, White Cat <[email protected]> wrote: > http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Wikipedia > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:05 PM, White Cat > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_visited_articles >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:50 PM, White Cat < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-01-03/Editing_stats >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:46 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> 2009/1/5 White Cat <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> > I hope everyone is okay with the mass purging of "unimportant" articles >>>> in >>>> > bulk quantities. Just wanted to point out the obvious. You can now >>>> return to >>>> > whatever you were doing. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> http://ragesossscholar.blogspot.com/2009/01/will-stanton-usability-grant-stop.html >>>> >>>> The community is actually *declining*, to a hard core of those who >>>> would fail a Turing test. >>>> >>>> The next trick is to stick around it longer than the usual 12-18 month >>>> contributor cycle and see what's left of the encyclopedia. >>>> >>>> >>>> - d. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> WikiEN-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >>>> >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
