Phil Sandifer wrote:
On Nov 5, 2006, at 4:51 PM, Delirium wrote:
I don't agree with that at all---I think we should be precisely a compendium of subject encyclopedias, albeit woven together in a way that the general reader can navigate from general to specific articles and back again in a reasonable manner.
I think there are some major problems with that, not the least of which being that this mindset is why many of our popular culture articles are written in an in-universe perspective.
Well I was thinking in terms of subject matter treated, not necessarily wording. What I had in mind with the "woven together" is to make things more accessible and fit in better with the rest of the encyclopedia.
Look at our math articles, for example---surely lots of them have no business being in a general-purpose encyclopedia. Some do, but as you drill down to more and more specific things, the language gets more and more technical and the content approaches that of a specialist mathematics encyclopedia.
-Mark