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

Sun Jun 11 05:54:19 UTC 2006

Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 6/10/06, Jesse W <jessw at netwood.net> wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
>
Perhaps the proof lies in the simple fact that others DID imagine doing 
such things.  :-)

Pop culture needs to be given credit for being popular.

Ec