[WikiEN-l] Featured article - "Mom and Dad"

[Charlotte Webb]

On 9/24/08, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We could start featuring two articles a day. One from a traditional
>> encyclopaedic topic and one from a pop-culture topic, perhaps.
>
> That's a false division of content. Wikipedia merely has more space
> for pop-culture topics than traditional paper encyclopedias. Anyway,
> pop culture on Wikipedia is one of our greatest assets - it attracts a
> lot of new users who would not otherwise read encyclopedia articles.

It also attracts deletionists who would otherwise have nothing to
bitch about, or would they find something else? *shrug*

—C.W.