[WikiEN-l] Proposed: stop all deletes for 6 months, then reconsider

Fri Nov 7 04:14:13 UTC 2003

At 10:25 PM 11/6/03 -0500, James Day wrote:

>So, stop deleting and spend our time and energy working out a killer 
>specification for how to indicate that articles are or aren't significant. 
>We'll end up with a far less contentious system and less stress for us 
>all... and incidentally be well on our way to working out how we're going 
>to select what to include in all of the subset editions of the Wikipedia.

There are enough Wikipedians that _we don't all have to work on the same 
thing_.

There is no reason that some people can't start working on such a specification
now, at the same time as others look for copyright violations, copyedit 
articles,
take photos to illustrate bird articles, research people who turn up on 
"requested
articles", and do all the other things that are part of creating this 
encyclopedia.

I'd suggest that those who want such a specification start a page, maybe
at [[m:How to tell what's significant]], where it can be worked on. I'm not 
opposed
to a specification of this sort, I just don't feel up to drafting it. So 
I'll keep doing
the things I do know how to do, which includes writing, copyediting, and 
deleting
obvious garbage.
-- 
Vicki Rosenzweig
vr at redbird.org
http://www.redbird.org