On 8/30/06, Keith Old <keithold(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Personally, I think that a comprehensive coverage of
towns is one of our
strengths at least in the first world. If there was verifiable concern in a
town over the construction of a Walmart, I have no problem with our article
saying it.
If someone wants to write about the history and geography of their local
area from reliable sources more power to their arm. We have had a number of
Featured Articles on towns and things that wouldn't be listed in traditional
encyclopedias. This, in my view, is a good thing.
I think you misunderstood what I was getting at. I *agree* with all of
this. What I don't enjoy is tabular data being misrepresented as prose
written by a human. And specifically, the *lack* of all the types of
information you're mentioning. There is a lot more to a town that
demographics.
If someone wants to write articles on asteroids and
other astronomical
Key point: If someone wants to write articles. But they don't. They
want to automatically generate thousands of pseudo-articles from
tables of data.
Steve