[WikiEN-l] Music fans choose Wikipedia over MySpace

[Bryan Derksen]

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com>
Date: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:01 am

> Alex wrote:
> Fortunately someone else (also from the music industry, no less)
> got it right:
> 
> 	"(Wikipedia is) rooted in fact. It's not promotional.
> 	Especially these days when the internet is full of  
> 	artists trying to essentially ram their message down
> 	your throat, I think a fan is a lot more receptive
> 	to a simple, no-hype approach."

This is one of the major reasons I wince when people argue that deleting an article about a movie or TV show or song is fine because it's already covered on some other dedicated website or wiki. Wikipedia does its content _better_.