Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/GPS waypoints

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I just wanted to add one more.

Larry Sanger was right

You can come here make a contribution and get insulted for free.

I have no idea what a geocaching fanatic is but the idea that just adding coordinates to locations on Wikipedia is fanaticism is funny.

There was something about deleting the list because it was UnEncyclopedic. Quick delete these, there are actually lists of lists, how Unencyclopedic is that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topic_lists

I put the list here as a proof of concept because it fits in with this Wikipedia initiative.

NOTE: This is an experimental service, currently implemented as a proof-of-concept on an off-site server. It will later be included in Wikipedia proper. http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=42_54_6_N_78_52_23_W_

Too many people are hung up with the traditional encyclopedia and fail to appreciate the advantages of an online Encyclopedia one of these is the ability to map it to the real world

with coordinates. There are tremendous advantages to this, it is a very powerful navigation tool.

You do not have to list the coordiantes of everything just Items already in the encyclopedia and just the most prominent ones if you need to save space.

The information is valuable inside of the articles but it is even more valuable when it is combined outside of the articles. It is as if someone said that an A-Z index is useless because each article already has a name.

Far from being useless there are some profitable companies that actually sell this information.

Thank you for opening up my eyes to what a golden period this is. There are enough people that understand the value to make it a profitable business but not enough that understand it enough to create profit draining competition.

You may not ever figure out why but you made me a couple extra million dollars.

I just want to make sure that the information I entered here in that article is deleted ermanently.

And I suggest you rest up because as more and more people become aware of the advantages of using GPS waypoints there will be others posting lists of coordinates here so remain vigilant and delete them all until in about 10 years everyone realizes how ridiculous that policy is. FredRys 05:22, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

• It's one thing to have the coordinates in an article on said landmark. It's another thing to create an unmaintainable list. Who decides what belongs? What happens when it gets too long for someone with an older browser or not-so-studly system to load? When you write a list on Wikipedia you have to triage the information by value -- is it really important enough that a very long list can be justified? In this particular case, probably not. The list is likely to grow to unreasonable lengths, especially since Wikipedia is too big for editorialized controls. Essentially it's unmaintainable. It's more an organizational issue than anything else -- it's not that the information doesn't belong, it just isn't very useful in this format. Haikupoet 05:37, 11 January 2006 (UTC)