[WikiEN-l] Trivia and popular culture sections

[Ray Saintonge]

Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 2/25/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>What makes Wikipedia great is that it doesn't make the arbitrary and
>>elitist distinction between high and low culture, but democratically
>>includes information that its audience thinks is of interest.
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>Great according to whom?
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How about the same audience that made [[Guinness World Records]] the 
greatest in-copyright best seller of all time, or that followed 
[[Ripley's Believe It or Not!]]  in the early part of the century, or 
that led to repeated editions of Haydn's ''Dictionary of Dates" in the 
19th century.

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