[WikiEN-l] Re: One Where We Blew It

Mon Sep 5 23:53:30 UTC 2005

That's honestly only part of the problem, though. The other problem  
is that the gudelines we have are crappy. Which is a helpful warning  
against instruction creep - your old instructions are likely to stick  
around and bite people in the ass long after their time has passed.

-Snowspinner

On Sep 5, 2005, at 8:03 PM, J.F. de Wolff wrote:

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> I agree with Phil's observation, but it's not just the [[profanity| 
> ****]] deletionists that are to blame. There are honestly too many  
> people so hungry for attention that they continuously seek to make  
> Wikipedia aware of their unnotability. These characters are an  
> undesired effect of being completely open, and cause pollution of  
> good material with their own vanity. It is them we should blame to  
> a large degree for our failure to distinguish between bona fide and  
> shockingly unnotable.
>
> When it comes to webcomics, it is extremely hard (for a non- 
> insider) to make a judgment between notable and non-notable, which  
> is exactly the point in having guidelines. I know this is elitist,  
> but in these matters an uninformed opinion is a potentially  
> destructive one.
>
> Jfdwolff
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