D 刪除
In Wikipedia, anyone can create a new article. Consequently, anyone can ask
to have an article deleted. It seems obvious that there have been no article
deletions in traditional encyclopedias, because such articles would not have
been written at all.
在維基百科，任何人都能夠新建一篇文章。當然，任何人都能要求刪除一篇文章。
很顯然地，在傳統的百科全書不會有文章被刪除，因為該被刪除的文章根本不會存在過。
Only a few medieval works pursued after the year 1500. The knowledge in them
was dated, new knowledge was extracted from scientific experiments. It needed
shortening and actualisation to make these works suitable for the renaissance
readership. [1]
As the encyclopedias grew and became multi-volume in the 18th century, they
could cover more and more subjects. But from edition to edition,
encyclopedias did delete or shorten old articles if they no longer interested
the audience. When an anonymous printer republished Dennis de Coetlogon’s
Universal history in 1759, he reduced the 169 treaties to 132. Above all,
treatises with theological subjects were eliminated. [2]
With regard to Wikipedia, many outsiders don’t understand why an online
encyclopedia has to delete articles. Web space is cheap. But most of them can
accept the explanation that an article costs a lot of work. According to Kurt
Jansson, the German Wikipedia pioneer, the question about relevance is in
fact the question: how much does this subject matter to us that we accept the
work it will cause the following years. Many articles are not up-to-date.
而說到維基百科，許多外人無法理解為何一個線上的百科全書必須刪除文章。網站空間很
便宜。但是他們之中多數能夠接受這個說法：一篇文章需要耗費很大的成本。According
to Kurt Jansson ，一名德文維基百科的先驅人士，他認為這個問題面臨一個實情：維基
百科接受多少分量的材料輸入，而它將影響接下來的數年。許多文章都沒有再更新了。
How will Wikipedia deal with article deletions in future? When article
numbers rise and the community stays the same or shrinks, will notability
criteria tighten? What is true for new articles, can also be applied to old
articles.
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Previously: A as in Advertisement, B as in Balance, C as in Cooperations
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[1] Robert Luff: Wissensvermittlung im europäischen Mittelalter. ‘Imago
mundi’-Werke und ihre Prologe. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1999, p. 425.
[2] Jeff Loveland: An Alternative encyclopedia? Dennis de Coetlogon’s
Universal history of arts and sciences (1745). Voltaire Foundation, Oxford
2010, p. 79.
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