[WikiEN-l] Is Wikipedia a News Portal (among other things)?

[geni]

On 9/19/06, Peter Jacobi <peter_jacobi at gmx.net> wrote:
> [[September 2006 Thailand coup attempt]]
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> Sorry to ask the obvious rhetorical questions here:
> * Wasn't WikiNews designed to be for news?

Partly but it was also meant to allow for a degree of original research.

> * Why is [[Wikipedia:Recentism]] only an essay?
> * Is at a good idea to write an encyclopedia article based a news tickers and CNN?

It would be more trouble than it was worth to stop people from doing so.
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geni