[WikiEN-l] Afd nominations

Mon Oct 3 01:51:30 UTC 2005

On 03/10/05, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I view the claims that Wikipedia has no notability requirements as
> > an extreme position, and one incompatible with creating an
> > encyclopedia (as opposed to a giant repository of all known facts).
>
> Didn't I read something about imagining a world where every person
> has free access to the sum of all human knowledge? And about that
> being what we're doing?

Knowledge =/= information

(random analogy)

A list of seven-digit numbers is data. A nicely-arranged telephone
book is information. Observing that ~4% of the city appears to be
called Smith is knowledge...

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