[WikiEN-l] Fiction and Wikia

Mon Nov 27 20:52:30 UTC 2006

Being 100% true and of general interest pretty much should mean it is
suitable for inclusion.

Fortunately the GFDLing of all this content allows some pretty good bleed in
the borders.

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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