Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/21/06, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
To say that any interests are "less useful to us" is nonsense. We have practically unlimited space and for this reason I deny we can ever really have too many factually accurate, verifiable articles on a particular subject. We can, of course, have too few articles on a given subject. For this reason, a common interest is not less useful to us, but a rare interest is more useful to us.
Ok, I think we're talking about different things. A tenured professor who is world expert in his field and is taking the time to write high quality articles about some important field is immensely valuable to us. A 15 year old polishing up an article about the Battle Zoblaorgeth on Mondoorba is less valuable. Not worthless, but less valuable. That's all.
I don't consider him less valuable at all.
Summary: "Only start articles about minor characters and fictional things if the main articles are too long". That's the extent of our thinking on fictional subjects.
At least this has an element of objectivity to it. We have no basis for saying that "Star Wars" should be placed on a higher pedestal than other works of science fiction. Its popularity, however, will spawn a greater volume of writing than some other equally valuable story that has thus far nothing more than a mention in a list of its author's works. Not every Kuyper Belt object will grow up to be a comet.
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