[WikiEN-l] Write stuff and take pictures!

[William Pietri]

Matthew Brown wrote:
> I think that any band who would be included in a specialist
> encyclopedia of their genre/era should be included on Wikipedia, at
> least briefly. No need for lots of unverifiable detail.
>   


Agreed! I originally thought of Wikipedia as the world's best general 
encyclopedia. Britannica++, I guess. But now I think of it as the union 
of all the plausible specialist encyclopedias. As long as we can verify 
the material, naturally.

It's fun to browse through Amazon's listing of circa 32,000 things in 
their encyclopedia category:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_n_9/?rh=n%3A21%2Cn%3A11713

Not all of these are what I'd call encyclopedias. But it does make me 
wonder how are coverage is on grasses for livable landscapes, or Russian 
criminal tattoos, both of which have their own encyclopedias.

William


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