[WikiEN-l] Attack Site Wars, Episode VII... The Return of the Essjay

[Kurt Maxwell Weber]

On Thursday 28 June 2007 04:51, Blu Aardvark wrote:
> have articles on anyone who has ever made their local rag. (Nobody is
> arguing for that. At least, I hope nobody is...)

I am.

That's the whole point of an encyclopedia--to provide a compilation of all 
human knowledge.

>
> Do real encyclopedias devote space to discussing singular events that
> happened to be reported by some random notable media source? Not
> generally.

No, but as you explain yourself below, that is a limitation not of the concept 
of an encyclopedia but rather of the medium most other encyclopedias are 
published in:

> quite a few other things that might not be found in traditional
> encyclopedias due to the fact that Wikipedia is an entirely different
> medium.

-- 
Kurt Weber
<kmw at armory.com>