[WikiEN-l] Re: Wikipedia's provable anti-expertise bias (was How didthis happen (comixpedia??))
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Thu Nov 17 18:42:01 UTC 2005
Sam Korn wrote:
>On 11/15/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>If popular culture/Trivia are so important why does [[Hurricane
>>Katrina]] (to chose a random example) not include either word?
>>
>>Lets consdir the situation:
>>
>>The problem: This article is to big and there is no obvious split
>>Solution. Remove stuff while doing the minium posible damage to the article.
>>
>>That tends to result in the popular culture/trivia section being the
>>first to go.
>>
>>
>Trivia sections should not exist for their own sake. If there is no
>way to work the facts into the text of the article, it is likely
>enough the writer showing off that they knew something or a newbie
>thinking this is a fan site. The details are usually irrelevant (cf.
>edit war over mention of Abraham Lincoln in [[Charles Darwin]]), and
>it improves the quality of the articles to take them out.
>
There's certainly nothing wrong with mentioning the birthday
co-incidence in the article, but then there's no shortage of anal idiots
who have no appreciation for the lighter side of things.
Ec
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