[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia broken

[Gordon Joly]

At 07:17 -0400 7/4/06, Sydney Poore wrote:
>Serious encyclopedia means leaving out material that is not 
>encyclopedic.  Too many editors are stretching the meaning of 
>encyclopedic to include anything that can be sourced. During Afd, it 
>is very common for editors to cite tabloids, forums or publicly 
>written dictionaries such as Urban Dictionary. 
>http://www.urbandictionary.com/. Since it takes a super majority to 
>delete, often the outcome is no consensus and the material stays. 
>
>Sydney
>

But surely a word, a work or art, a meme, or artifact, can be created 
today and archived contemporaneously?

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Gordo (aka LoopZilla)
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