David Goodman wrote:
In reality, we have actual editors, with their own
interests, and it
is very difficult to get them to work on anything but what they want
to work on, especially for things that need a serious referencing
effort beyond the googles. Most of them do have access to a library
with at least some books and some commercial databases, but it's
proven almost impossible to persuade them to use anything beyond arm's
reach--or to even use what material their local library has put within
arms reach to its community.
Many of the topics not presently included are very important--I came
here primarily to work on some of them, before I got diverted to
immediate rescues--and now just defending articles long enough to let
people rescue them.
Well, to answer my own question, I would give priority to the
intersection of (a) and (b): popular redlinks that have articles in
other reference works. And I think that means we are not disagreeing so
very much here.
Charles