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Because of a perceived greater acceptance of trivialities, small articles, non-traditional topics, and non-academic articles, inclusionists may find themselves in opposition to those who hold stricter views about the proper content of an encyclopedia. Inclusionists may feel such critics are simply suffering from the [[academic standards kick]]. |
Because of a perceived greater acceptance of trivialities, small articles, non-traditional topics, and non-academic articles, inclusionists may find themselves in opposition to those who hold stricter views about the proper content of an encyclopedia. Inclusionists may feel such critics are simply suffering from the [[academic standards kick]]. |
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Inclusionism parallels eventualism and the [[w:law|legal]] standard of [[w:presumption of innocence|presumption of innocence]]. As always, the dangers of [[factionalism]] should be noted, as should the likelihood that many Wikipedians are neither exclusively inclusionist nor deletionist. |
Inclusionism parallels eventualism and the [[w:law|legal]] standard of [[w:presumption of innocence|presumption of innocence]](ha ha). As always, the dangers of [[factionalism]] should be noted, as should the likelihood that many Wikipedians are neither exclusively inclusionist nor deletionist. |
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== See also == |
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Revision as of 02:24, 23 March 2006
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Inclusionism is a philosophy held by Wikipedians who favour keeping and amending problematic articles over deleting them. Inclusionists are also generally less concerned with the question of notability, and instead focus on whether or not an article is factual.
If, for example, an article has some good content and some substandard content, the inclusionist will see the good content as reason to keep the article and, like eventualists, will have faith that the wiki process will improve the substandard content in time.
A favorite phrase of inclusionists is "Wiki is not paper." Because Wikipedia does not have the same space limitations as a paper encyclopedia, there is no need to restrict content in the same way that a Britannica must. It has also been suggested that no performance problems result from having many articles [1]. Inclusionists claim that authors should take a more open-minded look at content criteria. Articles on people, places, and concepts of little note may be perfectly acceptable for Wikipedia in this view. Some inclusionists do not see a problem with including pages which give a factual description of every last person on the planet.
From a deletionist or exclusionist viewpoint, inclusionists appear to be arguing for the value of material and information which is substandard, or inadequately verified. However, inclusionists counter that there is little harm in keeping material that might some day be improved as information on the topics become more widely available. Inclusionists also point out that Wikipedia is not meant to be a poor copy of the Britannica, but rather a unique encyclopedia that aspires to "the sum total of human knowledge." Furthermore, inclusionists argue that the concept of "notability", an idea that many deletionists use as a basis for selecting which articles ought to remain and which deleted, usually has no objective criteria. They argue that reliance on such a concept does more harm than good to the goals of the project.
Some inclusionists see the project as a completely new and revolutionary way of storing and organizing all human knowledge. Many editors may object to articles such as List of tennis players who appeared on the David Letterman Show in 1995, but some inclusionists strongly support such items, arguing that they are valid additions to an encyclopedia aimed at being a repository of all human knowledge.
Because of a perceived greater acceptance of trivialities, small articles, non-traditional topics, and non-academic articles, inclusionists may find themselves in opposition to those who hold stricter views about the proper content of an encyclopedia. Inclusionists may feel such critics are simply suffering from the academic standards kick.
Inclusionism parallels eventualism and the legal standard of presumption of innocence(ha ha). As always, the dangers of factionalism should be noted, as should the likelihood that many Wikipedians are neither exclusively inclusionist nor deletionist.
See also
- Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians
- Association of Deletionist Wikipedians
- Association of Mergist Wikipedians
- Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgements About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are In Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They are Deletionist
- Proposed policy for wiki closure