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Well, the idea is that something has to be notable to have its own entry, not to be in the encyclopedia at all. If the page on something is only one paragraph,
by smackfu 12y ago
Well, the idea is that something has to be notable to have its own entry, not to be in the encyclopedia at all. If the page on something is only one paragraph, maybe that one paragraph should be on a different page. If you have it in both places, now you have duplication, and duplication leads to errors.
- e12e 12y agoIn the words of Douglas Adams: [I got it revised, it now says] "Mostly Harmless". I think the it's a good idea, but it's not a good fit for wikipedia as it exist today. I think it's grown to the point that for good or bad, it needs to be managed more like the Google corpus, than a traditional encyclopaedia. I'm not advocating abandoning human editing all together, but I think a new ideas are needed: wp's success has made it into a fundamentally new thing. It exists in the conceptual space between the sum of all newspapers and scientific journals, traditional encyclopaedia and the whole World Wide Web.