In a message dated 8/29/2008 1:24:06 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, wilydoppelganger@gmail.com writes:
the correct answer is probably "Propose a new project". Wikicompendium, or something.
-------- If by this you mean something like, a wiki which includes (at least links) to fan details, non-notable characters and episodes, obscure rock rocks, authors of single papers, etc etc
The only way a wiki like this would survive as an "overview" is if one of the core policies were stated at the outset to be "We we never have any notability requirement". In addition imho we would need to drop the requirement that only third-party sources be used, since the vast majority of fancruft for example, is first or second party, but not third. And then what about BLP?
I just don't see the possibility of being a "compendium" *with* a blp. There are just too many things that certain "focus groups" want to exclude on the basis of BLP. If the people of San Francisco know the Mayor cheated on his wife, we can't include it, unless 35 other newspaper pick it up and he appears on 5 talk shows denouncing it.
If I find something in a newspaper 30 years ago, but no one since has mentioned it, I can't include it, because no one else has mentioned it? That's a ridiculous bar that bears no relationship to standards of journalism and writing.
By the way, "Nikko" was King of the Flying Monkeys. The *sole* place you will find this, is in old newspapers. Obviously everyone since then has suppressed the information.
My biography of Henry Fonda, corrects dozens of inaccurate statements, some appearing in otherwise good print biographies, based on contemporary newspaper quotes.
IN Biography, this sort of source-based research would be considered what we *want* to present, not what we want to suppress. And that's exactly the way other print encyclopedias do it. If they find evidence outside of print biographies, yet published, they include it.
I'm venting :)
Will Johnson
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