IMHO, I don't see why we can't have an article called Elrond or Bilbo Baggins, and have in the first line, "Bilbo Baggins was a character in [[Middle Earth]]..." and I think it's fine to have a fictional character as an encyclopedia entry. After all, Wikipedia is not paper... I think it will turn out much differently than traditional encyclopedias and we'll have to accept some non-traditional ideas to do it.
Chuck Smith
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On Thursday 31 January 2002 00:43, Chuck Smith wrote:
IMHO, I don't see why we can't have an article called Elrond or Bilbo Baggins, and have in the first line, "Bilbo Baggins was a character in [[Middle Earth]]..."
You mean, just like [[Batman]]? The people working on Tolkien seem to be the only ones in a huff and a hurry about this.
Hi Chuck!
IMHO, I don't see why we can't have an article called Elrond or Bilbo Baggins, and have in the first line, "Bilbo Baggins was a character in [[Middle Earth]]..." and I think it's fine to have a fictional character as an encyclopedia entry. After all, Wikipedia is not paper... I think it will turn out much differently than traditional encyclopedias and we'll have to accept some non-traditional ideas to do it.
That's also my opinion about this theme. I think the only problem that exist is when a word or a name descibes fictional and non-fictional thing/persons. But that's the same problem that we have had before, for example with Mars, which is a god, a planet and something to eat (I don't know the English expression). When I write an article and want to link to Mars I search if there is [[Mars (planet)]], or - if I'm lazy (most of the time) - I link to [[Mars]]. There's a link on [[Mars]] to [[Mars (planet)]] (in the German wikipedia at least), so I can't see the problem here. People know from which page they are coming from and if they are searching for a planet or if the are hungry.
(BTW, I like it when I stumble over those pages and get to know meanings of a word I didn't know.)
Bye, Kurt
Chuck Smith wrote:
IMHO, I don't see why we can't have an article called Elrond or Bilbo Baggins, and have in the first line, "Bilbo Baggins was a character in [[Middle Earth]]..." and I think it's fine to have a fictional character as an encyclopedia entry. After all, Wikipedia is not paper... I think it will turn out much differently than traditional encyclopedias and we'll have to accept some non-traditional ideas to do it.
I agree totally with this.
There's still a problem of namespace collisions, though. A good example is [[USS Enterprise]], which is the name of many real and fictional vessels.
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