[WikiEN-l] Bad And Wrong Policy/Procedure/Guideline Hitlist

Sun Nov 5 21:51:04 UTC 2006

Phil Sandifer wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2006, at 4:46 PM, geni wrote:
>
>   
>> Britannica is only one opinion. An encyclopedia of childrens toys
>> would probably come to a different conclusion.
>>     
>
> Yes, but we're a general encyclopedia, not a subject encyclopedia,  
> and not a compendium of subject encyclopedias. This is a very  
> important point - especially for popular culture articles.
>   

I don't agree with that at all---I think we should be precisely a 
compendium of subject encyclopedias, albeit woven together in a way that 
the general reader can navigate from general to specific articles and 
back again in a reasonable manner.

-Mark