<<In a message dated 1/6/2009 5:25:55 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Do you never get the urge, when discovering something interesting, to see if it in Wikipedia? Sure, it should be put in the right place with the right sources and the right weight. But that urge is still there to educate and inform.>> ---------------------------------------------- I don't quite see how this relates to what I stated. We are not in the position to decide what's important. We are in the position to create articles based on what's important. We determine what's important based on what the community who represents those creators, researchers, editors, writers, professionals... believe is important. How do you do that? How do you determine, what some other group of people think is important? My thesis is that you do that by checking textbooks and doing google searches to see what's being talked *up* and ... what's not. This of course, only applies to *modern* items. Historical items will not necessarily be amenable to the google searches, but they should be to the textbook searches. Will Johnson **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
