--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
Axel Boldt wrote:
First, I see an encyclopedia as a compendium of all human knowledge that is interesting or useful to a significant number of people. My dream last night, and the fact that I keep my notebook in the right drawer of my desk, are both stored in my brain, so they are part of human knowledge. They are interesting/useful to me, but not to anyone else, therefore they don't belong in an encyclopedia. A biography of an unimportant person is interesting/useful to almost no one, therefore it doesn't belong either.
I am sympathetic to this idea, though not wholly convinced that it would be a good idea to try to formulate policy around it. Where do we stop, and why?
I don't see a need to formulate any policy. It's all implicit in the overall goal of writing an encyclopedia, properly understood. Certain things are simply not contained in encyclopedias, period.
Axel
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