2009/8/13 FT2 <[email protected]>: > On a spectrum of "what belongs in Wikipedia", the majority of experienced > editors these days probably fall in a similar area that agrees not > everything belongs in Wikipedia. Not every building, person, business, > fictional character, news item, minor band, aspiring politician, has a > place. There are graduations around exactly where the specific line gets > drawn in certain areas, but by and large that was an open issue long ago,
It's interesting to note that, on the whole, everyone is an inclusionist about something, and a deletionist about something else. There's hardly anyone so big on inclusion that they won't occasionally say "god, no, please, delete that article on a collapsed band from 1973 which once opened for someone you've heard of"; conversely, the people who spend a lot of time sending material to AFD as "nn, delete" will have their little pet hobbies of writing articles on a topic that you or I might consider insanely overspecific and not worth keeping. The way the deletionism-inclusionism debate *now* seems focused is things like minor BLPs. There's a thriving debate there, still, if you want to look for it. -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
