[WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

[WJhonson at aol.com]

<<In a message dated 1/6/2009 5:55:30 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
cbeckhorn at fastmail.fm writes:

Another  issue is the cyclical nature of academic research. It's 
perfectly possible  for a microfield to spring 25 peer reviewed papers in 
a decade and then  pass out of fashion or have all the accessible results 
exhausted. Some of  these microfields will get a book written about them, 
some will not. All  are of encyclopedic interest.>>
 
I suppose that depends on what you consider to be "encyclopedic".  If  25 
people in the world are interested in it, does that make it  encyclopedic?
What is the cutoff?  If you're stating that anything which can be  researched 
in some source, is encyclopedic, then sure.
 
However I think most people would say that we're interested in documenting  
the important things.  Not every size and shape of every screw ever  created.
 
25 papers in a decade sounds a bit small by the way
 
Will Johnson
 
 
 
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