On 5/7/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
At the same time, I'm quite aware that many people might consider an article on a Pokemon more interesting and relevant than one about an obscure 19th century railroad company. I choose, mostly, to avoid making judgments on the worth of subjects, only their verifiability.
If I can offer one comment on the "worth" of having a Wikipedia article on a topic, it's that for your obscure 19th century railroad companies, Wikipedia might be the *only* readily accessible source on that topic. That is, for someone without access to a library, all their info might come from Wikipedia. For Pokemon, the reverse is the case - almost everything in our articles is likely to have come from the internet, if it was sourced at all.
Steve