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by esad 5597 days ago
Why is inclusionism so bad? So what if we had a wikipedia article for every office building in Chicago or every Pokemon out there?
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We probably should have a Wikipedia article for every office building in Chicago.

We probably should not have a Wikipedia article for every hackerspace in the world.

We may want more articles about hackerspaces on Wikipedia.

If we do, it does not help that almost everybody who has ever gone so far as to give their planned hackerspace a name has probably also added a (crappy) page to Wikipedia about their planned project.

Maybe there aren't articles for every building in Chicago... but you can look up almost every block/building in NYC.

You act as if every hacker space is only in the planning stages. I'm a member of a functional, and running hackerspace that's doing just fine and in action today.

Me too. Our hackerspace has been involved with national events to promote science and engineering.
I'm in favor of that, but only for stuff that has existing material to cite (does that count as inclusionism? it used to...).

If you create a new article about a random office building in Chicago, and you cite all the information in the article to architecture books, journal articles, newspaper articles, etc., and the result is more than one sentence, nobody will delete it, so that basically is the current policy.

But if you personally interview architects, dig through archives of blueprints, etc., to construct a new piece of historical research on a building that the existing historical literature doesn't document, Wikipedia isn't quite the right place to publish that. Either there should be a separate wiki dedicated to researching/documenting the history of Chicago, or you could write up your results, present them at a history conference, and then cite that paper once it's published.

There's already such a Wikipedia and it's called the Web. Not sure we need another one...
Wait a second, we do have a Wikipedia article for every Pokemon out there!