Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)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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