[Wikipedia-l] A parallel World Wide Web?

Wed Jun 2 23:36:24 UTC 2004

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:34:20 +0200, Ulrich Fuchs <mail at ulrich-fuchs.de> wrote:
> As an encyclopaedia, we should reduce noise. Instead we are creating noise by
> accepting articles on any subject. For me - opposing that
> noise-accepting-policy since one and a half years now - that outsiders
> statement is very interesting.

Noise- what is noise? Perhaps you don't care for articles on the
[[chicken sexer]], and you may not care about an article on [[Badger
Badger Badger]], or [[AYBABTU]], but who are you to decide what is a
valid topic? (Who am I?)

Many seem to feel that as long as a topic can have an encyclopedic
type article written about it, it should probably be there. What is
the alternative to "accepting articles on any subject"? Would you have
us replace Votes for Deletion with, say, Votes for Inclusion, where
people have to propose a new page and get it approved before it's up?

Wikipedia doesn't work that way. Wikipedia is fast. You edit it and
it's there- pow. A fundamental change such as that you propose is not
going to happen. Perhaps you'd like to read [[Wikipedia:Mirrors and
forks]] and create your own site where you can decide how to deal with
this issue.