wikipedia follies

[rone]

<palecur> I am embarrassed that the article on the Khitomer Accords is longer, better organized, and more thorough than the article on the Crimean War.
<palecur> it speaks poorly of us as a species.

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[marknau.livejournal.com]

But. Um. It's not.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I want very much to agree with this point, except that for the specific example at hand it appears to be wrong on all counts. :-)

[ptomblin-lj.livejournal.com]

And yet the article on Khemal Attaturk doesn't mention his menagerie named Abdul.

[crisper.livejournal.com]

And the biography of Gandalf is more thorough than that of Arafat, yeah. (Even worse, the first time I looked up Gandalf, there had not yet been an edit to indicate, anywhere in the page, that he is a fictional character. Everything about him was stated in a narrative voice suggesting absolute factuality.)