Tony Sidaway wrote:
A whole section on the spelling of the word
"encyclopedia"? This is
one of the problems that are endemic to wikis. Relatively trivial
topics become extended into a pseudo-debate.
I agree to some extent, but only in that it's a problem of organization
and focus. I think this sort of information is useful to have, just not
useful to have highlighted in prominent places. I've taken the liberty
of moving the "debate about how this article should be spelled" sections
out of the intro of a few articles to a #Name section near the end,
which I think works fine. There's certainly no reason to remove
information that might be of interest to someone, so long as it's
verifiable and not unduly getting in the way of other information.
-Mark