[Wikipedia-l] Re: 90000 articles

Wed Nov 13 03:36:07 UTC 2002

> I think we should implement the greatly-pared-down counting scheme we were
> discussing on the list earlier.  We don't have 90K articles.  We have
> about 50K articles and about 40K geographical entries automatically
> created from a database.

I guess I just take these things personally, but many of those geographical
entries are more articles than those other 50k non-geographical articles.  They
have more information.  People are just uncomfortable because they don't like
the data because it does not interest them or because it was created in a mass
quantity.  No one complains when others write articles that have two or three
sentences.  In fact no one complained when I made these articles on a small
scale, in fact I got a number of people who told me it was a great thing.  I
think we need to stop separating the geographics articles from everything else.
 They are all articles and should be treated as such.  If you don't like them,
add to them.
    Ram-Man

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