User:Xiong/Inclusionist

 Inclusionist manifesto

Bias: I'm an inclusionist, at least as far as article mainspace goes. When I want to know all about something, I go to Wikipedia. I don't want to have to guess beforehand, "Gee, is this important enough to be in WP?"

WP is not paper, and we won't run out of server space. It could be argued that short articles on trivial topics somehow degrade the overall quality of the project -- but -- that assumes such a measure is valid, that one could somehow add up the value of each article and divide the sum by the total number of articles.

In practice, when a user looks for something on WP, he will find something -- article, stub, or an invitation to start a page. Whatever he takes away from the experience will represent his valuation of WP as a tool. If he searches for "notable" things, and finds much good work, he will value WP highly. If he searches for trivial items and finds nothing, he will value WP less highly. This is all that counts. &mdash; Xiong&#29066; talk 23:55, 2005 Apr 11 (UTC)