On 6/28/07, Blu Aardvark jeffrey.latham@gmail.com wrote:
Why does Wikipedia have to have an entry on everything that is reported by some media source or other?
Consider that the "evening news" of one's choice, and its accompanying dot-com site, are the source our typical user will be most familiar with. For most of them, it is also the only citable source to which they will ever have more than a sporadic level of exposure.
Saying "go write about something not found in the news" will just alienate people who are trying to help the project.
One might watch the news at home and read the newspaper at work, or vice versa, and even edit Wikipedia in both locations, but most people who have a job aren't going to be spending much time in libraries... unless they are in fact librarians, in which case more power to them.
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