[WikiEN-l] To: Jimmy Wales - Admin-driven death of Wikipedia

Sat Jun 10 06:58:35 UTC 2006

On 6/10/06, Jesse W <jessw at netwood.net> wrote:
> You would not see that in the Encyclopedia of Late 20th Century
> American Television?  Really?  Or do you mean in any "general"
> encyclopedia.  Because certainly, Wikipedia reaches the level of a
> specialized encyclopedia in a number of areas, like television shows -
> but (I hope), we don't go too much beyond that.

I still find it hard to imagine a specialised encyclopaedia listing
all the couch gags in Simpsons episodes, or detailed plot summaries
with "quotes" for every episode of Futurama or "Clerks: The Animated
Series" etc etc. If someone can prove me wrong, go for it.

Steve