Bryan Derksen wrote:
...But articles about galaxies are Scholarly, so I don't expect anyone's going to purge that particular pile of minutiae any time soon. Better to go after the stuff that actually _distinguishes_ us from the Traditional and Scholarly encyclopedias.
This is another excellent point, that deserves widespread forehead-emblazoning, or something.
I wonder if we could add it to WP:NOT: "Wikipedia is not a traditional encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not *necessarily* formal and scholarly. Wikipedia is not aiming to be a drop-in replacement for the Encyclopaedia Britannica."