[WikiEN-l] Re: Rambot city articles vs. other topics

Sun Oct 23 03:46:23 UTC 2005

Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:

> The Rambot articles shouldn't be compared to other topic classes that  
> contain articles on "non-notable" topics.
>
> Taken as a group, the Rambot articles are _reasonably_ comprehensive  
> (they include virtually every U. S. city, not just a minuscule  
> percentage of them); uniform in style, content, and quality; and  
> derive from good (though uncited) sources.

If these other topic classes had "non-notable" articles added in one 
comprehensive swoop by a bot, would that make them okay? Why is that 
different from adding the exact same articles piecemeal over a long 
period of time, if the end result is the same? Wikipedia's a work in 
progress, I don't think we should condemn or permit articles based on 
the current state of other articles in the same general subject area. 
The holes will eventually get filled in, and the rest of the articles in 
the "unfinished" topic class can be excluded from Version 1.0 until then 
if it's a problem having them around.