T P wrote:
There's nothing stupid about a prestigious reference work (as Wikipedia has become) waiting for a field to become significant before writing about it. If it becomes significant in fifteen years, we can write about it in fifteen years. [[WP:MASTODON]]
Please enlighten me - what does "No angry mastodons" have to do with whether any field is significant enough to be covered in Wikipedia? Either now or fifteen years from now?
As a sidenote, I would add that for any field due to become significant fifteen years in the future, we should already be covering, right now, the building blocks that field will ultimately study. For example, there's a bit of a push these days for Hip hop studies to gain recognition as an interdisciplinary academic field. Argue if you like about its legitimacy - I'm sure Citizendium would reject it; I observe that no Wikipedia article exists yet. But if you can imagine what Wikipedia would have looked like in 1992, I can assure you that it would have included detailed articles on Public Enemy and N.W.A, and the articles we have might look better for it today.
--Michael Snow