[WikiEN-l] I'm disappointed in Wikipedia.

[Matthew Brown]

On 6/16/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wouldn't go so far as to say it would kill off the project, but I
> believe it would be bad for it. We're not attempting to create "Who's
> Who in Academia", we're attempting to create an encyclopedia. By
> covering subjects which are barely of note, very little information
> exists for, and will be forgotten completely ten years from now, we are
> giving them undue weight simply by inclusion. That violates NPOV, which
> -is- a core principle.

That's a rather novel interpretation of NPOV.

-Matthew