Mijn naam is David Schouten, ik ben student Informatica aan de Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Ik houd mij op Wikipedia met verschillende onderwerpen bezig, voornamelijk interesseren mij artikelen die betrekking hebben op Informatica, Geschiedenis, games en wintersport (met name skieen, ijshockey en schansspringen).
Het volgende citaat van Jimbo Wales kwam ik tegen op de gebruikers pagina van en:User:Alansohn, en vond ik erg verhelderend en inspirerend:
Let me make my point more clear: arguments about what we ought to [do] if someone really starts to abuse wikipedia with thousands and thousands of trivial articles do not prove that we ought to delete any and every article that's too trivial today. Put another way: if someone wants to write an article about their high school, we should relax and accomodate them, even if we wish they wouldn't do it. And that's true *even if* we should react differently if someone comes in and starts mass-adding articles on every high school in the world. Let me make this more concrete. Let's say I start writing an article about my high school, Randolph School, of Huntsville, Alabama. I could write a decent 2 page article about it, citing information that can easily be verified by anyone who visits their website. Then I think people should relax and accomodate [sic] me. It isn't hurting anything. It'd be a good article, I'm a good contributor, and so cutting me some slack is a very reasonable thing to do. That's true *even if* we'd react differently to a ton of one-liners mass-imported saying nothing more than "Randolph School is a private school in Huntsville, Alabama, US" and "Indian Springs is a private school in Birmingham, Alabama, US" and on and on and on, ad nauseum. The argument "what if someone did this particular thing 100,000 times" is not a valid argument against letting them do it a few times. --Jimbo Wales (dated November 7, 2003)[1]
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