The whole discussion of "is it encyclopedic" is missing the point entirely. Is an article interesting? Has it been cobbled together painstakingly, bit by bit, by a hundred different people until it's the only resource of its kind in the world? Will someone find the article hilarious, or cool? If any of these things are true, then it is *morally wrong* to just delete the article. It's like taking an oil painting and feeding it into a shredder because it's not the right *type* of oil painting. If a great article doesn't belong on wikipedia, then it should be moved somewhere else, not just deleted.
On 7/16/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:41:22 +0300, "Jussi-Ville Heiskanen" wrote:
Not so much a case in point, but a touchstone. Do *you* think we are better or worse than Britannica for having "List of songs about masturbation". Stand up and be counted...
No, a case in point. There is no encyclopaedic topic "songs about masturbation" because there is nothing about masturbation which has any logical connection with songs, and vice-versa (although I suppose one could stretch a point and say that, for example, Whitney Houston's "I will always love you" gives more pleasure to the performer than anybody watching).
There's always the version of the Eric Bogle song "Nobody's Moggy Now" where the dearly departed is in pussy heaven dreaming of masturbating mice (instead of masticating them). :-)
I am all for setting up a sister project, triviapedia or whatever, for collecting such examples of word association gone mad, but there's no question in my mind that a neutral, verifiable encyclopaedia is not the place for them.
I think you are taking this issue too seriously.
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