User:Jean-Francois Gariepy/Preservation Details
On Preservationist Rationale
The original idea of
However, we disagree with the way the rule is presented, and sometimes with the way the rule is used along with the encouragements to use
This does not mean we want primary sources and non-notable topics exploding inside Wikipedia. This does not mean that Wikipedia has to become a museum where original research is going on. All we want is to feel that other people in the community, like us, feel that preservation of knowledge is in fact one of the goals of an encyclopedia. Diderot himself said that the goal of an Encyclopedia was to gather knowledge from everywhere on the surface of the Earth, present its general structure to the men who live with us, and forward it to those who will come after.
How many oral languages have not been quoted by anyone? How many authors have written books that were not talked about in any intellectual circle or press conferences? How many scientists have reported experiences that have only been read by a few specialist colleagues?
Objectives
- A change in the Notability rule stating that the decision of deleting an article on a subject with some historical value—even if no secondary sources were found—should not be taken solely on the basis of non-notability (though it could be deleted for other reasons, such as low quality, non-neutral, etc.)
- A change in the sources descriptionstating that although secondary and tertiary sources are good to show the notability of a subject, some subjects for which we have only primary sources (for instance, the very works/poems/writings of the person) still have an historical value in themselves, and should be covered in the encyclopedia.
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