[WikiEN-l] Fiction and Wikia

Mon Nov 27 20:05:26 UTC 2006

Yes, but fiction is almost always widely released and seen, consumed,
noticed, and analysed by many people. If a large number of people are
interested in reading and writing about a work of fiction and/or it's
characters -- which is true of a vast majority of said works -- then
it isn't "indiscriminate", by definition.

~~ Sean
On 11/27/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/27/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think it's bad business to get in the habit of setting up official
> > policies that exclude factual, referenced, neutral information from
> > inclusion in Wikipedia.
> >
> > The natural extension of this tendency will lead to the typical elitist
> > exclusionism that all institutional media typically fall victim to.
> >
> > Wikipedia is not paper.
> >
>
> Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of items of information.
> That something is 100% true does not mean it is suitable for inclusion
> in Wikipedia.
>
> Been policy for a long time.
> --
> geni
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