[WikiEN-l] Re: Webcomics/Deletion again

Wed Oct 26 14:10:27 UTC 2005

"Alphax" <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote in 
message news:435F6CF1.9080903 at gmail.com...
> David Gerard wrote:
>> I must ask: why on earth not, if the info is third-party verifiable?
>> How is one to research an area one is new to without cues to such
>> things? If you're interested in an area, why *wouldn't* you be
>> interested in things of interest within that area?
> Why should we have articles on every single Pokemon if they are totally
> unknown outside of the Pokemon community?

At the very least we should have a list of every single Pokemon, and 
articles on those which might be particularly interesting, or about which 
there is a lot of information.

Unfortunately there is now also a tendency for lists like this to be 
nominated for AFD as "listcruft". "Unmaintainable" is also a term bandied 
about, usually meaning "incomplete" or often "I don't know what these things 
are so I couldn't maintain the list myself", as if it were untenable to ever 
include a list in Wikipedia before full membership were determined (don't 
these people understand, Wikipedia is **dynamic**!) and rude to include a 
list of things which some poor benighted person might not have come across 
before.

Sometimes it's difficult to discern exactly what some AFD nominators would 
consider suitable for an article at all.
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 