[WikiEN-l] My favorite Wikipedia article ever
The Cunctator
cunctator at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 00:21:20 UTC 2007
On 7/7/07, Rob <gamaliel8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/7/07, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A reasonable definition of "encyclopedic" is "covering all knowledge."
> > Therefore there exists reasonable criteria by which the article would
> > be encyclopedic. Your claim that "by any reasonable criteria" the
> > article is not encyclopedic is not accurate.
>
> 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?
The concept of knowledge is not related to importance.
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