[OSM-talk] OpenPlantMap
Steve Hill
steve at nexusuk.org
Sat May 17 09:22:43 BST 2008
Peter Miller wrote:
> I agree. I think we need to adopt a Wikipedia concept of 'notability'. For
> example... A wood is notable, a large established solitary tree in a park
> might be notable, but a nettle is not. Is a rare plant notable? I would
> suggest it is not notable in OSM itself.
I'm afraid I see the notability criteria as one of Wikipedia's biggest
problems so I would hate to see OSM go the same way. I've seen too many
genuinely useful articles get blown away because someone decided they
covered non-notable subjects, to the point that I gave up editing Wikipedia.
The point is: why should anyone care about notability so long as the
data is useful, accurate and maintained?
Wikipedia's deletion policies are deeply flawed: There are a group of
users who make it their mission to delete articles. When they nominate
an article for deletion, most of the people who vote either wrote the
article, or one of the group who's sole mission is to delete stuff - no
one else cares enough about the deletion procedure to take part. So the
majority of the time, well written articles get deleted purely because
of the massive bias in the quorum who vote on deletions. I sincerely
hope OSM doesn't decide to go down a similar route.
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- Steve
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