user_Jamesday wrote:
If people stop using it to help select which articles to include, so the Wikipedia no longer uses and incorporates the Columbia selection, it won't be a problem. Using it to see whether the Wikipedia has coverage of something is fine - it's creating coverage based on not having it that is not.
No, there's no problem with that, either. It's perfectly legitimate for us to look at what other encyclopedias cover, and make sure that we cover everything possible. If any encyclopedia in the world has an article on it, so should we.
--Jimbo