[WikiEN-l] September 11th casualties

Mon Feb 24 14:09:38 UTC 2003

Jason Williams wrote:
> I know this has been discussed again and again, but can we *please*
> just delete articles that consist of a name, date of birth, place
> of employment, bland description of how much they loved their kids,
> and the fact that they happened to die on September 11th?

Have these been moved over to sep11.wikipedia.org?

I think the general consensus is that this stuff isn't encyclopedic
(i.e. too unverifiable to be genuinely NPOV) and the consensus WAS
that it should go to sep11.wikipedia.org.  But the latest consensus
was that it should probably go to a non-wikipedia domain, for two
reasons: (1) is isn't encyclopedic, so it doesn't belong on a
wikipedia domain and (2) a tribute might actually be better if it
wasn't trying to be NPOV.

Since people spent time typing it it, it seems a shame to just
delete any of it, so moving it to sep11 for now seems like a good
idea, and then later on, sep11.wikipedia.org can be given a new
domain name, which I'm happy to supply and pay for if someone has
a good idea that isn't taken.

This is sort of Cunc's baby, so I'm happy to follow whatever he
wants to do here.

--Jimbo