There will always be that news story about 28 murders in po-dunk Kansas and that city will suddenly shoot from a stub to a featured article. The creation of human knowledge never ends, and we will never stop gathering it.
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On 6/9/06, Jesse W jessw@netwood.net wrote:
On Jun 9, 2006, at 5:09 PM, George Herbert wrote:
On 6/9/06, Jesse W jessw@netwood.net wrote:
On Jun 9, 2006, at 4:32 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
We have articles on every single episode of most major TV shows, and lots of minor ones. You would never see that in any encyclopaedia.
You would not see that in the Encyclopedia of Late 20th Century American Television? Really? Or do you mean in any "general" encyclopedia. Because certainly, Wikipedia reaches the level of a specialized encyclopedia in a number of areas, like television shows - but (I hope), we don't go too much beyond that.
Out of curiosity, why?
I'll turn the question on it's head - what's an example, in your opinion, of a article topic that would be "beyond a specialized encyclopedia devoted to a subject to which the topic is a part" (sorry, little convoluted there, but I hope you get the gist) I ask, because, I can't think of a topic like that that would not be, at the same time, obviously "not encyclopedic", in the opinion of any random person you cared to ask. Certainly, an article consisting only of polemic on Macedonian independence is "beyond a specialized encyclopedia", no matter what it's subject, but it's also obviously wrong for Wikipedia. I can't think of a topic which fails the first criteria, without being obviously unsuitable for Wikipedia. Can you come up with some examples?
What, exactly, does an end-state Wikipedia project look like, to those who would want us to stop adding new articles at some point? How and when would you say "stop"?
When we have articles on every topic for which reputable sources can be found. Of course, we'd have to start up adding new articles in a year or so, when a lot of new material has been published, but we could stop adding articles for a period, while enough new material was published.
Jesse Weinstein
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