Phil Sandifer wrote:
On Nov 5, 2006, at 4:46 PM, geni wrote:
Britannica is only one opinion. An encyclopedia of childrens toys would probably come to a different conclusion.
Yes, but we're a general encyclopedia, not a subject encyclopedia, and not a compendium of subject encyclopedias. This is a very important point - especially for popular culture articles.
I disagree, I see no reason why Wikipedia can't be considered a compendium of subject encyclopedias. Wikiprojects already treat it that way in a lot of regards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Highways springs to mind, I would normally expect to find this sort of thing only in a specialist collection.