On Thursday 28 June 2007 04:51, Blu Aardvark wrote:
have articles on anyone who has ever made their local rag. (Nobody is arguing for that. At least, I hope nobody is...)
I am.
That's the whole point of an encyclopedia--to provide a compilation of all human knowledge.
Do real encyclopedias devote space to discussing singular events that happened to be reported by some random notable media source? Not generally.
No, but as you explain yourself below, that is a limitation not of the concept of an encyclopedia but rather of the medium most other encyclopedias are published in:
quite a few other things that might not be found in traditional encyclopedias due to the fact that Wikipedia is an entirely different medium.