[WikiEN-l] Google Knol: Move over Wikipedia?

[Ray Saintonge]

joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu wrote:
> The relevant guidelines are WP:FICT and WP:EPISODE which are frankly 
> being used
> to remove a tremendous amount of content. The sensible thing to do for all of
> this is to allow some minimum of inherited notability. But I doubt anyone is
> going to go for that. Almost every tv show on my watchlist is being wiped out.
> This isn't creating as much drama as the webcomics but it is far more
> pervasive.  Many of the Stargate editors have left simply in disgust and I
> suspect this is true for other series as well.
The majority of us are not interested enough in these comics or TV 
series to become involved in the disputes.  We will happily refer to the 
articles to give us background when an allusion arises elsewhere, but we 
are not about to edit there when we have nothing to offer but our 
ignorance.  And spending my time there to engage in dramatic battle with 
others who are even more ignorant about the subject seems like an awful 
waste of that time. 

The silent majority (to use a familiar cliché) is content to let those 
interested in comics and TV to go ahead and write about their favorite 
subjects.  At least that means they are wasting somebody else's time.   ;-)

In my moments of despair, I go so far as to speculate that we may be 
lacking good leadership.

Ec