T P wrote:
There's nothing stupid about a prestigious reference work (as Wikipedia has become) waiting for a field to become significant before writing about it. If it becomes significant in fifteen years, we can write about it in fifteen years. [[WP:MASTODON]]
The world is moving faster than that. One unique feature about Wikipedia is that it is contemporaneous with its content. Some of the details which make our time what it is are ephemeral, and may not be researchable in fifteen years.
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