On 8 April 2011 15:17, Charles Matthews <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Notability" has always been a broken and widely-misunderstood aspect of > enWP. My impression is that deWP, for example, sets the bar higher, and > has fewer "problems": in a word, deletionism can work well enough. > Comprehensiveness is of course about total content, while notability is > about topics you recognise. "Salience" is the neglected concept, which > is relative to topic. I am told anecdotally that many native speakers of German who also speak good English prefer en:wp for its comprehensiveness. This may be an example of what we think we should be about conflicting with what readers actually want and expect. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
