Talk:Porto Velho

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Sorry to sound like a jerk but: This article doesn't even rate being called a stub. You can help Wikipedia by writing something more substantial before posting. Please.
Tualha 01:51, Nov 17, 2003 (UTC)

I am not the author but I added the stub text. I completely agree with you, it is pitiful, but I would simply like to point out that a lot of articles in the Wikipedia start out this way. If you take a look at Special:Newpages you will see a constant stream of such things. Some get deleted, others get merged, and the rest languish until someone comes along and expands them. -- Viajero 10:34, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Sigh. I suppose it's better than no contributions at all... -- Tualha 12:56, Nov 17, 2003 (UTC)
Actually, I am not so sure. My feeling is that WP would be better off without all these thousands of stubby, orphaned texts. But one of the orginal design philosophies was to make the threshhold as low as possible to encourage participation. That seemed to have worked, given WPs huge growth, but whether that policy is still useful is highly debatable. Likewise, did you see the discussion on anon edits on User_talk:Snoyes? -- Viajero 13:09, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Yes, I did. I put a suggestion on the VP around then for a way to ensure pages would be looked at. I'm going to write it up in more detail and send it to the mailing list.
I think having a low threshold is still a good thing. Yes, there are lots of dedicated wikipedians now. But if we cut off the flow of new ones by raising the bar, the current exponential growth will slow down to something more like linear. The current system has worked well so far and I'd hate to change it without a lot of debate. Remember what happened to Nupedia.
To clarify: I don't think Wikipedia should raise the bar by policy; I would like to see new contributors raise their own standards. -- Tualha 13:17, Nov 17, 2003 (UTC)

I need help with the english language (someone please correct mistakes). How can I easily make this as nice as those template-made pages? I have found some informations in another site, like number of inhabitants, and other data, which I could use to make a nice table. Yves 05:15, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)