T P wrote:
On 2/26/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
T P wrote:
Not everything in the "Encyclopedia of Sequential Art" belongs in Wikipedia.
Would you mind fleshing that out for me? I've just leafed through a couple special-purpose reference works I have around. I'm not seeing an obvious dividing line between topics. What would you leave out from special-purpose encyclopedias? If possible, I'd like a rule that applies to the Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy just as well as the Encyclopedia of Fashion Accessories.
It's also be great if you could ground your rule in some practical reason why it's bad.
I should have been more clear that that is my personal opinion. As I mentioned in another post, if the Wikipedia community decides, in fact, that everything included in any encyclopedia belongs in Wikipedia, then that's fine.
That's great. But the way the community decides is, at least on the good days, through discussions like these. If you're hoping to have your opinion affect others, you'd do well to explain what you mean and how it would work. Maybe you're not ready to do that now, in which case feel free to start the thread up again when you have a more detailed way to explain what your opinion is, and how you see Wikipedia working based on it.
William