On 2/15/06, Justin Cormack <justin(a)specialbusservice.com> wrote:
I am not sure that price is part of notability in
software; I have
written non notable but expensive software.
Is there any discussion of notability for software? How many software
products do we want in Wikipedia? I would have thought several
thousand, if not several tens of thousands could easily be justified.
We are, after all, an encyclopaedia. Is our aim not to produce a
consultable body of knowledge? I'm a little confused about why we seem
to keep trying to raise the bar on notability.
Yes it is frustrating that so much work goes into
trivial subjects and
(despite what some people seem to think) there are vast areas without
even stubs or redlinks. Someone pointed out to me the other day that we
dont have an article on [[Scandinavian design]], the genesis of among
other things [[Ikea]]. I have books lying around my computer that would
provide sources for hundreds of missing articles. Must write one now.
Heh, good idea. My apartment is a tribute to [[Ikea|Scandinavian design]].
Steve