User blog comment:Edwin Shade/How To Become Number One On The Leaderboard/@comment-32783837-20180102204148/@comment-30754445-20180105080520

@ArtismScrub

"Also, I don't see how most articles here are "pointless stubs". Well, maybe pointless... Are you implying that each number listed here should be significant in a special way"

I'm not "implying it". I'm saying it straight out:

Having an article for every random googolism ever, which lists only its name and an approximation table (if we're lucky. Most don't even have an approxamtion table), is just as pointless has having a googol articles that say "Integer N comes between N-1 and N+1, it has M digits and its prime factorization is ...".

Especially where the criteria for which numbers to include are completely arbitrary. Saibian's naming system, for example, is an extremely general one. You can names lots and lots of numbers with his system. Having an article for a random number in this system, doesn't make any more sense than having an article for a random decimal number like 865,419,238,651,411,690.

Of-course, we aren't trying to list *all* his numbers. We only list those which he specificially mentioned on his website. But this makes even less sense. Does the fact that a number appear on some huge list make it worthy of an article? I don't think so.

He may have listed only 15000+ of them on his website, but there are - in fact - millions of Saibian googolism.

"Because if we ran the wiki that way, we'd have maybe 200 pages, tops."

Well, if we only have enough interesting content for 200 pages, then this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

But you're underestimating the vastness of the topic at hand. We might have only 200 articles for specific numbers, but we can have articles about concepts, various notations (there are dozens of them), large numbers arithmetic, and even people.

We already have quite a few such articles (at least a few dozens. probably close to a few hundred) and we can have many many more.

BTW have you noticed that every new member that comes here, finds himself completely lost? Seems to me that writing articles which address this problem should be a teeny-bit more important than maintaing articles for thousands of googolisms.

@Edwin

Well, I hope you'll have better luck with this than I.

I have a sinking a feeling the most of the people here are perfectly content with the current situation. If the community as a whole doesn't want change, it won't happen.