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Ok, I'll bite: why is this page being restored? Are we going to allow everybody to drop by and plug their web sites? --[[STG]] |
Ok, I'll bite: why is this page being restored? Are we going to allow everybody to drop by and plug their web sites? --[[STG]] |
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The /Talk page would be the place to try your best to resolve the "should this page exist?" dispute amicably. |
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My view on this--I don't think it does any great harm to have a page devoted to Gamefoolz. We wouldn't want to have a page about every website that comes down the pike; Wikipedia Is Not A Web Directory (see [[what Wikipedia is not]]). But Gamefoolz is a big site, and we should be able to humor them even if some (or even most) of us think there's no point in including articles about large-but-not-famous websites. |
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Approximately the same thing would go for articles about companies. Eventually, when Wikipedia has a million articles, ''every''-friggin-''body'' is going to want to have articles about their businesses. Your Mom and Pop shop might not merit a mention even at that point (although, at that point, we might be set up to have an encyclopedia-style business directory; who knows?), but some mid-sized retailer, for example, probably would. If it made them happy, let 'em. |
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I don't feel strongly about this, by the way. I could easily be convinced otherwise. --[[Larry Sanger]] |
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Revision as of 20:15, 26 November 2001
Ok, I'll bite: why is this page being restored? Are we going to allow everybody to drop by and plug their web sites? --STG
The /Talk page would be the place to try your best to resolve the "should this page exist?" dispute amicably.
My view on this--I don't think it does any great harm to have a page devoted to Gamefoolz. We wouldn't want to have a page about every website that comes down the pike; Wikipedia Is Not A Web Directory (see what Wikipedia is not). But Gamefoolz is a big site, and we should be able to humor them even if some (or even most) of us think there's no point in including articles about large-but-not-famous websites.
Approximately the same thing would go for articles about companies. Eventually, when Wikipedia has a million articles, every-friggin-body is going to want to have articles about their businesses. Your Mom and Pop shop might not merit a mention even at that point (although, at that point, we might be set up to have an encyclopedia-style business directory; who knows?), but some mid-sized retailer, for example, probably would. If it made them happy, let 'em.
I don't feel strongly about this, by the way. I could easily be convinced otherwise. --Larry Sanger