Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Sat, 6 May 2006 14:13:06 +0200, you wrote:
The point of Wikipedia is being an encyclopedia and stuff that's popular today should be covered. I personally don't care for Star Wars and Pokemon, but others obviously do. None of us are in the position to determine what people will care for in 100 years.
This is true. So we should have an article on Pokemon. But there are articles on, for example, online games, which add pretty much nothing at all to the FAQ from the game site itself, and there are articles on Pokemon related subjects which are of no conceivable interest to anyone who is not already into Pokemon. Is that good or bad? I don't know. It does seem that there is a tendency for fans to use Wikipedia as a sort of Myspace, building vast temples to their small gods.
For an example, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Endless_Online_...