David Goodman wrote: > In reality, we have actual editors, with their own interests, and it > is very difficult to get them to work on anything but what they want > to work on, especially for things that need a serious referencing > effort beyond the googles. Most of them do have access to a library > with at least some books and some commercial databases, but it's > proven almost impossible to persuade them to use anything beyond arm's > reach--or to even use what material their local library has put within > arms reach to its community. > > Many of the topics not presently included are very important--I came > here primarily to work on some of them, before I got diverted to > immediate rescues--and now just defending articles long enough to let > people rescue them. Well, to answer my own question, I would give priority to the intersection of (a) and (b): popular redlinks that have articles in other reference works. And I think that means we are not disagreeing so very much here.
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