OK the other side of the argument is "Wikipedia is not paper". That is, presumably, that we have a virtually unlimited amount of space in which to describe whatever we want.
So if we want individual articles on each episode of "Gunsmoke" we should have them. If we want individual articles on each chapter of War and Peace we should have them. There is no reason why 3 million articles today, could not be 300 million articles in ten years. So why all the fuss? Get busy and stop deleting my articles. The size and price of hard disk storage is dropping like a sinner to Hell. We have 1 Terabyte external's going for 30 bucks. The foundation just needs to invest in more cheap hardware and pound the pavement for more contributions. Will Johnson -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 2:06 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary 2009/8/18 <[email protected]>: > I just explained why. Some people would find three thousand articles on > "Superman" is be overwhelming. > It's a similar situation to having separate articles on each subway stop in > New York City or each Mayor of Santa Cruz. No, you just explained one side of the argument. An argument only exists if there are two sides and it is only a high profile argument if ther e is some additional factor. _______________________________________________ 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
