[Wikimedia-l] crazy deletionists!

[Marc A. Pelletier]

On 03/07/2012 7:04 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> What would a Wikipedia look like that did not make use of press sources? It
> would look a hell of a lot more like an encyclopedia. Thousands of silly
> arguments would never arise. Thousands of apposite criticisms of Wikipedia
> would never arise. These are good things.
>
> Unfortunately, such a Wikipedia would also have vastly impoverished
> coverage of popular culture and current affairs. The articles on Lady Gaga
> and Barack Obama would be years behind events; the articles on the Japan
> earthquakes, which I believe Wikipedia was widely praised for, would only
> now begin to be written, articles on many towns and villages would lack
> colour and detail.

Well, if I were suddenly named dictator of Wikipedia, I'd probably 
suggest that a "recent event" namespace be created, where popular media 
were acceptable sources, and make them verbotten in mainspace.  
Mainspace articles might have a hatnote with a link to the other 
namespace along the lines of "for recent, less authoritative coverage".

We'd have our cake and eat it too.

-- Coren / Marc