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While I agree with you 100% about the tired rehashing of notability guidelines every time someone has their pet article deleted, I do want to nitpick one issue.
by Perceval 16y ago
While I agree with you 100% about the tired rehashing of notability guidelines every time someone has their pet article deleted, I do want to nitpick one issue.
You write: "Wikipedia is not an effort to organize all the world's information. That's Google. Wikipedia is an effort to build the world's best encyclopedia."
Unfortunately, some of Wikipedia's own marketing has fostered the incorrect impression that they are open to any and all possible article topics. For example, in a press release celebrating their millionth article they reproduce one of Jimbo's quotes:
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. -- Jimmy Wales
Jimbo should know better. The guideline "What Wikipedia Is Not" is actually quite detailed and informative, but people rarely read that or the notability guideline before posting long rants decrying Wikipedia as run by a cabal of retrograde deletionists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
- ErrantX 16y agoThe problem I always had (as a WP editor with around 800 main space edits) was that people the vast majority of editors applied those policies when it suited them. I recall several occasions where edit wars erupted because I cut a 150 word, non-notable, unsourced piece from, say, a Star Wars article.
- jrockway 16y agoWhoa! Are you saying Wikipedia is a project involving people!?