On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Carcharoth<[email protected]> wrote: > But still? A local library? I find it useful to look at things in > context with other similar institutions. So, I try and think of famous > libraries. The British Library, the Bodleian Library, the Library of > Congress, and so on. > > And then I try and think where my local library fits in on that scale. > > And I conclude: no article.
Yes. I had a similar thought after browsing through [[Wikipedia 1.0]] recently, particularly with regard to its "importance" scale. A local library is certainly not "must have" or "important". It's not really even "contributes to depth of knowledge". One way to look at it: how big must the selection of articles be, for that article to be included? Is your local library in the top 100,000 most important articles? Top 1,000,000? Imagine the whole encyclopaedia is evenly fleshed out, so that every town of 100,000 people in Namibia has an article as good as a town of 100,000 in the US. Now is your local library in the top 10,000,000 articles? > Train station, just possibly. Once again I like my proposal to think in terms of length of article, not a boolean "is allowed to exist". Real encyclopaedias have short articles about unimportant stuff and long articles about important stuff. A train station might well be worth two sentences. > > The big stately house and park that used to be here before it was > built over, yes. Yep. > The current local park - probably not. Definitely a couple of sentences. In Wikipedia that probably means a reference in "[[Parks of xxx]]". > The local supermarket - certainly not. Don't see why it wouldn't be appropriate to refer to it in the article about the supermarket chain, or to say that the town has two Woolworths and one Coles. But a whole article, no. > The nearby main road - it does have an article already actually. I'm not up to date on the rules of road inclusion. It's pretty hard to draw a line. Again, articles about road networks would work better than articles about individual roads. Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
