[WikiEN-l] Why Wikipedia should not be a random collection of facts

Tue Apr 18 15:57:28 UTC 2006

Phil Boswell wrote:
> 
> Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
>> Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made
>> of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts
>> is not necessarily science.
>>                 -- Henri Poincaire
>>
>> Now apply this to Wikipedia:
>>
>> s/science/article/
>>
>> QED.
>>
> ...and your point is?
> 
> If this is yet another attempt to have fictional entities booted off
> Wikipedia, I'm sure I'll not be alone in getting rather annoyed.

Actually I was thinking more along the lines of "Why trivia sections
need to die"... not the stuff in them, but the existence of them as
"piles of unsorted facts".

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