----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com>
Date: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:01 am
Alex wrote:
Fortunately someone else (also from the music industry, no less)
got it right:
"(Wikipedia is) rooted in fact. It's not promotional.
Especially these days when the internet is full of
artists trying to essentially ram their message down
your throat, I think a fan is a lot more receptive
to a simple, no-hype approach."
This is one of the major reasons I wince when people argue that deleting an article about
a movie or TV show or song is fine because it's already covered on some other
dedicated website or wiki. Wikipedia does its content _better_.