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Do you mean that it's not a general [[:Category:Encyclopedia|encyclopedia]], or that it's not even an encyclopedia of [[wiki]]s? When I think of an encyclopedia, I think of a site that, even though it may restrict its scope to certain topics, will cover those topics thoroughly (hence the name "encyclopedia"; "encyclopedic" mean "comprehensive in terms of information"). [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] deletes a lot of articles for non-notability, but once it decides to have an article on a topic, it tends to go all-out; e.g. [[wp:White & Nerdy#Music video]] contains a lot of information that could be considered [[cruft]] (they've actually dialed it back a bit, because it used to contain even more information; but still, there's a lot of stuff there that could be considered trivia). | Do you mean that it's not a general [[:Category:Encyclopedia|encyclopedia]], or that it's not even an encyclopedia of [[wiki]]s? When I think of an encyclopedia, I think of a site that, even though it may restrict its scope to certain topics, will cover those topics thoroughly (hence the name "encyclopedia"; "encyclopedic" mean "comprehensive in terms of information"). [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] deletes a lot of articles for non-notability, but once it decides to have an article on a topic, it tends to go all-out; e.g. [[wp:White & Nerdy#Music video]] contains a lot of information that could be considered [[cruft]] (they've actually dialed it back a bit, because it used to contain even more information; but still, there's a lot of stuff there that could be considered trivia). | ||
But it seems like WikiIndex wants to limit its entries to basic facts about the [[WhatIsWiki|wikis]] and [[:Category:Wiki People|wiki people]] in question. (There aren't a lot of articles here about [[:Category:WikiIdea|wiki ideas]], and none of those articles are very long, so there's not much precedent to show how a lengthy article about a wiki idea would be handled; but we've had a few long articles about wikis and wiki people, which were cut down). The solution is usually, in the case of pages about wikis, to link to an off-wiki [[about page]]; or in the case of wiki people, to link to an off-wiki [[ | But it seems like WikiIndex wants to limit its entries to basic facts about the [[WhatIsWiki|wikis]] and [[:Category:Wiki People|wiki people]] in question. (There aren't a lot of articles here about [[:Category:WikiIdea|wiki ideas]], and none of those articles are very long, so there's not much precedent to show how a lengthy article about a wiki idea would be handled; but we've had a few long articles about wikis and wiki people, which were cut down). The solution is usually, in the case of pages about wikis, to link to an off-wiki [[about page]]; or in the case of wiki people, to link to an off-wiki [[user page]]. | ||
If that's the direction you want to go in, fine. The site is, after all, Wiki "Index"; an index usually only contains very short blurbs, with a few statistics, about its subject matter. But we should clarify this in the about page, so people know. | If that's the direction you want to go in, fine. The site is, after all, Wiki "Index"; an index usually only contains very short blurbs, with a few statistics, about its subject matter. But we should clarify this in the about page, so people know. | ||