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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by kstrauser on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:08PM (#13979044)
The Oxford English Dictionary (sample: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80663) weeps. There's a lot of value to some in listing references to a topic.
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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:17PM (#13979146)
There's a difference between listing three to five examples of a given usage, to demonstrate that it occurs in the wild, and exhaustively cataloging every single time a thing has been mentioned by anyone.
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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by kstrauser on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:20PM (#13979183)
Certainly, but what's the cutoff? Maybe that should be a policy ("three to five inbound references are acceptable; more are not") so there's consistency.
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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by basch on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @11:41AM (#13987342)
why do you care? why cant the information exist, maybe be hidden by default, and shown after clicking an expand button.
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