Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/5/06, Philip Welch wrote: > > Undue weight. It's absurd for Pokemon to have 10,000 times more > coverage within Wikipedia as, for instance, 19th century philosophy.
It's an interesting idea, but applying this criterion you would end up with a Diana Moon Glampers encyclopedia, where nobody would dare to write an article on a popular subject lest he incur the wrath for the Handicapper General for unbalancing it.
The *embarasse de richesse* with regard to Pokemon characters doesn't directly hamper the use of the encyclopedia by those wishing to read about the likes of Hegel and Schopenhauer and the Mills.
I definitely agree with this, but Phil is right about the coverage (although not about the application of undue weight which is for NPOV determination). It seems like all this pop-culture stuff (which also includes the likes of the Britneys of the world and wrestling entertainment) could be dumped, umm, I mean reorganized, into another wiki project, such as Mediapedia, Wikipop, or WikiStuffNobodyWillCareAbout100YearsFromNow. I think it would be better, for both groups to have admins dealing with the type of content they are dedicated to and interested in. I see a lot of inactive admins and it would be interesting to see how many have decided to take an indefinite leave of absence because they spend 90% of their time dealing with content and user disputes involving articles they have no interest in.~~~~Pro-Lick
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