[WikiEN-l] Re: Wikipedia's provable anti-expertise bias (was How didthis happen (comixpedia??))

[Ray Saintonge]

Sam Korn wrote:

>On 11/17/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
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>>What's your basis for saying that they are worthless?  Putting them in a
>>separate "fun stuff" section makes it clear that these are not the most
>>"important" facts about the subject.
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>We are an encyclopaedia, not a fan site.  Almost always, these points
>bear no relation to the rest of the article, are unsourced, and make
>the article read badly.  They are a net loss to the encyclopaedia.
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How is it that there is no relation?  These trivia still need to relate 
to the subject of the article.  Almost everything in the Guinness Book 
of Records is trivial, and it has been consistently popular

>The facts therein can almost always be written into the text of the
>article.  If they can't, the fact is almost certainly too irrelevant
>to mention.
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We're not building an encyclopedia of pomposity!

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