[WikiEN-l] On Completeness and Restrictiveness (was Re: GNAADeleted!)

Fri Dec 1 23:08:14 UTC 2006

On 01/12/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/1/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Yes. The *breadth* of en:wp's coverage is actually a reason I've heard
> > from many who speak another language natively for preferring en:wp as
> > a reference - there's more likely to be something, anything, on a
> > given subject here than anywhere else, and a better something than
> > you'd get from a Google search.
> > Our breadth is a strength, not a weakness. We don't have to have a
> > 30,000-byte article on something to be a useful source on it.

> Are you willing to stick your neck out and say whether a two-sentence
> stub on GNAA is a good thing or a bad thing?

I never particularly objected to the article's existence and voted
"keep" each time it came up, particularly as there were quite a few
people keeping an eye on it.

- d.