On 2/26/07, William Pietri <william(a)scissor.com>
wrote:
T P wrote:
Not everything in the "Encyclopedia of
Sequential Art" belongs in
Wikipedia.
Would you mind fleshing that out for me? I've just leafed through a
couple special-purpose reference works I have around. I'm not seeing an
obvious dividing line between topics. What would you leave out from
special-purpose encyclopedias? If possible, I'd like a rule that applies
to the Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy just as well as the
Encyclopedia of Fashion Accessories.
It's also be great if you could ground your rule in some practical
reason why it's bad.
I should have been more clear that that is my personal opinion. As I
mentioned in another post, if the Wikipedia community decides, in fact, that
everything included in any encyclopedia belongs in Wikipedia, then that's
fine.
That's great. But the way the community decides is, at least on the good
days, through discussions like these. If you're hoping to have your
opinion affect others, you'd do well to explain what you mean and how it
would work. Maybe you're not ready to do that now, in which case feel
free to start the thread up again when you have a more detailed way to
explain what your opinion is, and how you see Wikipedia working based on it.
William
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William Pietri <william(a)scissor.com>