On 20/09/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Peter Jacobi wrote:
Yeah. I've recently managed to get an "Wikipedia is not a News Portal" into the German equivalent of [[WP:WWIN]]. But this POV seems to collide with the consensus at enwiki.
I guess as a reader I don't see the benefit in *not* covering everything. I agree there is a slant towards more coverage of recent news events, but that's simply because they're easier to cover. The solution, IMO, is not to cover recent events less, but to cover older events more. I want to know the equivalent of this stuff for other time periods! Were there short-lived but at the time massively-covered events in the 1890s, equivalent to today's frenzies over child kidnappings? What about the thousands of political scandals, major and minor, that have at various times shortened governments' tenures, forced cabinet reshuffles, etc., etc.? It's all good info we're missing!
I concur. Good well-written and well-referenced articles can be written about these things, are being written and *should* be written. I would go so far as to say that de: is wrong to arbitrarily keep these things out considering how well they can be done.
- d.