User:ChristianKl/Motivations for inclusion and exclusion

The point of this page isn't to set rules but to list motivations for rules regarding notability.

Inclusion

• We want to make it easy to contribute to Wikidata
• We want to help other Wikiprojects by making it easy to get benefits by integrating with Wikidata
• Through combining many different sources of information we want to surface new insights that users couldn't have gotten from existing sources
  • A genealogist can be interested in the same person has a librarian managing authority control for a library. Providing them a venue to share information is valuable. Another user might be interested in the same person for completely different reasons that currently don't fit into structure for which large databases are kept and benefit from the data both gathered.
• Academic textbooks are scientific are a poor way to store information. When there are multiple claims they don't allow a discussion with sources about which is right. They also hard to query with computers. Wikidata is a better way to store scientific information

Exclusion

• Users that contribute to Wikidata mainly to further finanical interestes of an organization that has an interest in certain entities being perceived in a favorable way should be discouraged. We want users that want to collaborate.
• Wikidata's technology is not infinitely scaleable. When it comes to large data contributions we have to make sure that adding the data is worth it
• The more items we have the harder it is for our community to give all of them the attention that they deserve
• We don't want to violate people's privacy especially with possible false statements about them
• We don't want hoax items about entities that don't exist

Process

• It should be easy to understand what items are welcome