Pete/Pcb21 wrote:
The Tree of Life project's aim has always been to
write about all
species. I think that ambitious aim has been part of the reason for its
success in becoming the largest wikiproject (tens of thousands of
articles), with the most contributors.
I fully support this, as I think it is an absolutely excellent thing
to be doing.
I am personally disappointed that you want to put a
stop to that -
presumably coming up with some guideline so that *some* species are
allowed articles, but not all.
Huh? Why would we put a stop to that? Why would we come up with
guidelines to prohibit some species from wikipedia? I do not support
any such thing.
It also rides against the overwhelming consensus of
this thread, as
mentioned in my other post. Whatever their position on wikispecies,
on-one has suggested crippling wikipedia.
Especially not me! I wonder if you misunderstood something I said,
because I absolutely agree that Wikipedia and the Tree of Life project
should have a very ambitious goal of every species.
If anything, it makes more sense to say that I think that WikiSpecies
should be "crippled" in that it should not have references to Tigger
and Jaws, because it is not a general encyclopedic reference work but
a specialized database. But I don't accept that this amounts to
"crippling" anymore than wiktionary is crippled by our insisting that
a dictionary is not an encyclopedia.
--Jimbo