On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:02 AM,  <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> An object takes on increased significance, with the number of publications
>> mentioning it.
>> Do we want a work that has a list of the 3 billion known stars numbers each
>> with their own articles showing their apparent brightness, density and
>> distance  from the Earth?  It would swamp the entire project.  "Random page" 
>>  would
>> become worthless.
>>
>> So we focus on what others have determined to be important, based on the
>> number of citations to it.
>
> Have you seen the discussion about towns and village stubs on ANI?

Sorry, should have provided a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ANI#Editor_creates_100.2C000_or_more_non-notable_articles.21

Carcharoth

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