User:Martijn Hoekstra/Inclusionist manifest


 * The sum off all human knowledge, not the sum of all human knowledge which has been covered extensively in sources independent from the subject that have a reputation for fact checking.
 * Thought experiment: Imagine two Wikipedias. One which has the current notability guideline. One which doesn't, but has the same verifiability policy. Imagine you want to search for something, and you can't find it on the one with a notability guideline. Do you then want to search the one without it? I would. Why are we determining what knowledge is available to our readers, and what knowledge is not.
 * Why am I not allowed to learn from Wikipedia who my (smallish town) mayor is, and what has been written about him in local newspapers?
 * Every bit of sourced content we delete, is bringing us further from our mission 'the sum of all knowledge'