On 7/8/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 7/7/07, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/7/07, Rob gamaliel8@gmail.com wrote:
If you are using "knowledge" as a mere synonym for "information", sure, but does a near miss between two planes qualify as "knowledge", or is it simply just a bit of trivia, an unimportant data point?
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/knowledge#Noun
Does your meaning of "knowledge" match any of these definitions? If so, when you write articles, please keep do your "knowledge" in check and give me the "information" instead.
Those are pretty bad definitions, and none of them seem to fit the context of this thread.
As for the question of whether or not this particular "near miss between two planes" is unimportant, as I've already pointed out it clearly is not. The incident is a clear example of the use of AMASS - so it is a very important data point for anyone doing research on such systems. Now maybe you could argue that this bit of knowledge is too specialized for Wikipedia (and I'd still disagree), but it is certainly not trivia.
If it's an example of the use of AMASS then it belongs in that article, not on it's own. In fact, that article would be enhanced by inclusion of this near miss.
Another goodie, the picture of a "prostitute" in the Wikipedia article on prostitution might be fake. Yet, there is an argument for keeping the image even if it is a fake because, "The artist has created it as a representation of what a prostitute looks like."
No debate about how this editor came to the conclusion that this image is "a representation of what a prostitute looks like," particularly since it's a blonde prostitue and the percentage of blonde prostitutes is probably rather low, once you add in prostitution from all those countries in the world which have hundreds of millions of people and few blondes.
I love the argument for keeping a phonied up image (although I don't know that that's what this is) because it is an artist's conception, according to another editor, of what representative prostitutes look like.
That's special Original Research. It should be removed, until the issue is settled, though.
KP