----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Summit scs@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_.