Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/21/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)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.
Ec