[WikiEN-l] Improper speedy taggings

• Previous message: [WikiEN-l] Re: Funky tricks on de
• Next message: [WikiEN-l] Another Dead End
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

>Why isn't Wikipedia best served by both? If someone comes across one of your
>papers and wants to know more about the author, isn't that useful, even if
>they just find out that the author is no one special?
>There's clearly a potential benefit, and I just don't see what the negative
>is. As long as you stick to insisting that everything in the article is
>easily verifiable, anyway (which is already a rule outside of notability).
>I suppose you could argue that such an article is best served by a dedicated
>wiki, one for all authors, for instance. But that would mean either creating
>a fork or taking all articles on authors out of Wikipedia entirely. The
>other alternative, to have notable authors in Wikipedia and non-notable ones
>out of Wikipedia, would likely cause way too many problems in
>implementation. Taking all articles on authors out of Wikipedia is very
>unlikely to happen, so you're basically ensuring a fork.


I second all of the above.


- d.

• Previous message: [WikiEN-l] Re: Funky tricks on de
• Next message: [WikiEN-l] Another Dead End
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]