[WikiEN-l] Re: Cruft

Ryan Norton wxprojects at comcast.net
Sun Sep 11 05:53:53 UTC 2005


> but because it is
> used in a way to imply that people who think things are not notable are
> basing the standard of notability on a notion of physical limitations. 
> It
> becomes hollow and meaningless; it becomes synonymous with the error of
> thinking that just because you *can* have an article about every 
> elementary
> school in the country means that you *should*.
>
> Wikipedia is not paper... but it still is an encyclopedia!
>
Yes, but you do realize a lot of this "cruft", esp. the misc facts in 
articles are what helps make wikipedia popular/interesting :)?

Ryan




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