CyberFish on 30/7/2006 at 12:08
Seriously, what's wrong with articles on every single pokemon? Wikipedia has effectively unlimited storage space. There's no such thing as too much information.
Paz on 30/7/2006 at 12:21
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posts_by_Vigil(Reading_Them)
Chimpy Chompy on 30/7/2006 at 13:33
The anti-elitism bit is worrying. I've been reading lately about stuff like Quantum Mechanics, and I think such topics are quite vulnerable to being put in a state that's plausible-looking, but full of errors that most of us would never notice. Especially if half-informed armchair enthusiasts are writing them.
Aside from that I don't think I'd exactly call for a ban on articles on bulbasaur or the Adeptus Astartes; it's just little dismaying that more work seems to be going into that kind of stuff than more useful, real-world knoweldge. Possibly because the bulk of contributors are teenage fans who want to write about their favourite sci-fi, whilst the Physics Professors who might tell us about QM have been driven off by the anti-elitism.
SubJeff on 30/7/2006 at 13:46
More likely its that fans of anime/games/films/etc are ready to write about them because they really enjoy those things as a past time but the academics do it as a job. They might enjoy the field they work in but that doesn't mean they want to write about it in thier spare time.
Paz on 30/7/2006 at 14:17
In general, I'd say there's precious little enjoyment to be gained from writing about something you dearly love in the (necessarily) dry and factual wikipedia style.
But that's just, like, my opinion, man.
Renegen on 30/7/2006 at 19:07
A large part of it is that everyone will get to see what you wrote. The perfectionism comes naturally with trying to make a new wiki page, because you are presenting it to the world.
