[WikiEN-l] Comic book articles and fancruft (was: Pattern copyvios involving...)

charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Sun Oct 22 10:49:26 UTC 2006


Ray Saintonge wrote

> An encyclopedia that doesn't suck recognizes that different people have 
> different ideas about what is important, and respects them for that.  
> What could be more self-evident than that.

Oh, quite a few things, really. Conflating comprehensiveness with pluralism: I think enWP does this quite well. If someone tells me that the German WP has its head clearer about that (which I believe to be the case, though not from a huge personal experience), I'm not going to write it off for that reason.

Charles

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