On 3 May 2006, at 12:38, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
That would be incredible, but somehow I doubt there are that many dedicated Wikipedians that it's going to happen.
Anyway, I look forward to the day when I can use Wikipedia to find out about the local coffee shops and Linux User Groups and radio stations and indie artists. If that means I have to stop myself from clicking on a link to [[Harrisburg Street, St. Petersburg]] and reading about the width of the sidewalks, it's well worth it.
The problem I have with all this stuff is the people who dont understand that an encyclopaedia is a historic record, and that just try to write this stuff about what things are now. Unless people are prepared to write from a historical perspective it is a guidebook not an encyclopaedia.
So a history of the Linux User Groups on your street, referenced with the CVS checkin histories from the street's IP addresses, yes; "There is a Linux User group in my street" or "this street is mostly inhabited by students and my friends and has a coffee shop on the crossroadds" is just cruft in the most derogatory sense, and should be deleted, or transwikied to a guidebook.
Justinc