Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:40:53 +1100, you wrote:
My view is that when they wrote "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information" they had in mind keeping the focus on what is actually important, rather than running off after red herrings.
The keyword is "indiscriminate". "Unimportant" is nowhere merntioned. Organising small but interesting facts into a trivia section, where there are enough to warrant doing so, is hardly indiscriminate.
Discrimination has more than one meaning.
"Indiscriminate" and "discrimination" do not carry the same connotations.
Ec