Skyring said:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:22:51 -0000 (GMT), Tony Sidaway minorityreport@bluebottle.com wrote:
Skyring said:
And guess what? If you look at what the general public regards as good encyclopaedias in this day and age, you'll see no Autofellatio, no Goatse, no terrorist beheadings. I suggest that the people who think that such material belongs in a good encyclopaedia are a tiny minority.
Evidently not, else they would be so massively outnumbered on Wikipedia that such articles would be a cinch for VfD.
Hmmm. Wikipedia as the real world. Even in microcosm it doesn't come close to being a true reflection. Most people in RL don't spend their days fooling around writing an encyclopaedia.
If those who want the beheadings and whatnot were a tiny minority that happened to be predisposed to gravitate to Wikipedia, then it would follow that Wikipedia would have more of this stuff than the rest of the internet. As far as I'm aware this is not the case.