On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:22:51 -0000 (GMT), Tony
Sidaway
<minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com> wrote:
Skyring said:
And guess what? If you look at what the general public regards as
good encyclopaedias in this day and age, you'll see no Autofellatio,
no Goatse, no terrorist beheadings. I suggest that the people who
think that such material belongs in a good encyclopaedia are a tiny
minority.
Evidently not, else they would be so massively outnumbered on
Wikipedia that such articles would be a cinch for VfD.
Hmmm. Wikipedia as the real world. Even in microcosm it doesn't come
close to being a true reflection. Most people in RL don't spend their
days fooling around writing an encyclopaedia.
If those who want the beheadings and whatnot were a tiny minority that
happened to be predisposed to gravitate to Wikipedia, then it would follow
that Wikipedia would have more of this stuff than the rest of the
internet. As far as I'm aware this is not the case.