On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Anatoly Vorobey wrote:
You, lcrocker@nupedia.com, were spotted writing this on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:51:44PM -0800:
But Larry's right here--allowing subpages just makes three things you have to guess among rather than two. Personally, "History of Baseball" is the first thing I'd assume, because that's what it would be in a paper encyclopedia.
No, it wouldn't; it would be a subsection "history" of the article "baseball". Which corresponds to subpages quite nicely.
That entirely depends on the encyclopedia. In an encyclopedia on the history of sports, it wouldn't be true. In an encyclopedia on baseball, it wouldn't be true.
We should not limit ourselves to what we see in ordinary general encyclopedias like Britannica, World Book, and the rest. We should aim to have the content, eventually, of 1,000 specialized encyclopedias, such as one of my very favorite encyclopedias, The Companion to Epistemology. This contains nearly all the information you'd find in an ordinary introduction to epistemology, and then some, broken into relatively small chunks and (in very many cases, anyway) presented from a neutral point of view.
Larry