Worthy of notice/Open questions

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What is the deletion process?

Inclusionist v Deletionist

  • Where, when do these identities, factions arise?
  • Who are the key figures?

What is the notability guideline?

  • How is it implemented technically?
    • Tag, script, bot, etc.
  • When was the notability guideline introduced?
  • Who argued most strongly for it?
  • What was the opposing view (if there was one)?
  • Is Wikipedia bound by a traditional notion of "encyclopedic" as expressed and practiced by some of its editors?
    • Why not a more expansive notion?
    • Why delete anything?
There is no practical limit to the number of topics it can cover, or the total amount of content, other than verifiability and the other points presented on this page. However, there is an important distinction between what can be done, and what should be done, which is covered in the content section below. Consequently, this policy is not a free pass for inclusion: articles must abide by the appropriate content policies, particularly those covered in the five pillars." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not
  • Did the notability guideline arise in response to libel claims by celebs?
    • Or was that the living bios?

Checking in

  • Do WP editors overestimate the frequency with which other readers, editors are checking their pages?
  • How many people take full advantage of mediawiki features like "watch lists"?
  • Guarding from bandits as Baker says in The charms of wikipedia
  • Or checking User pages, talk, etc?

Deletionist period of 2007

  • Refered to in Baker The charms of wikipedia and Scott interview
  • "web-comics articles purge of 2006"
  • companies, urban places, web sites, lists, people, categories, ideas

Aaron swartz challenges notion that Wikipedians wrote Wikipedia alone

"When you put it all together, the story become clear: an outsider makes one edit to add a chunk of information, then insiders make several edits tweaking and reformatting it. In addition, insiders rack up thousands of edits doing things like changing the name of a category across the entire site — the kind of thing only insiders deeply care about. As a result, insiders account for the vast majority of the edits. But it’s the outsiders who provide nearly all of the content."

Swartz is concerned that the voice of infrequent but substantial contributors is not heard by the current process:

"Unfortunately, precisely because such people are only occasional contributors, their opinions aren’t heard by the current Wikipedia process."

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