Jimmy-
Cunc has argued, correctly I think, that the idea of
1.0 may be
causing people to delete things that really need not be deleted. For
this reason, he thinks it best to pursue 1.0 under a non-Wikipedia
brand name, possibly Nupedia.
I think that's a very bad idea, for the reasons I have given here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/8910
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/8916
I haven't seen Cunctator's argument and for now I don't buy it.
Individuals don't delete articles on Wikipedia, there has to be community
consensus. The only way that there would be consensus for increased
deletion is if it served some useful purpose, for example, "Let's delete
this because it can never be in a print edition." For filtering purposes,
however, it would be very simple to have a [[Category:Print]] tag (or
[[Edition=Print]] with a more complex scheme).
You may have fueled some of the tendencies Cunc describes by giving a
rather vague idea of the "how" for Wikipedia 1.0 but giving more specific
ideas about the "why", "what" and "when". So some people may
feel that the
very idea of 1.0 gives them license to delete more. If that is the case,
we need a better plan. I for one would love to keep everything that is
encyclopedia-related part of Wikipedia. I think Wikipedia's standards for
inclusion are good the way they are, but there are legitimate
considerations for a print edition.
Regards,
Erik