On 9/22/05, Anthony DiPierro <wikispam(a)inbox.org> 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.
Anthony
Tell and what. As and when every article about a country is up to date
and contains a reasonable amount of info. I'll acturly waste some
mental energy of showing the falws in your proposal.
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geni