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I think people had a hard time taking Wikipedia seriously when there were more articles about Wookie culture and light sabre colours than there were about chick
by jordigh 10y ago
I think people had a hard time taking Wikipedia seriously when there were more articles about Wookie culture and light sabre colours than there were about chickens or water. So, the deletionist culture seems to be about pride, focus on the serious business so that Wikipedia can be taken seriously and have a better reputation.
- jonathankoren 10y agoPerhaps, but it's also a database and it doesn't really hurt anything. We can point at pretty much any article and find a strange influence of geek male culture all over the encyclopedia. "In Popular Culture" (which I think is now supposed to be removed from articles) all too often simply contained links to video games and obscure anime. Personally, I find the shift to wikia troubling. Mainly because it came down from Jimbo to purge the articles and move them to wikia, which ahem Jimbo runs and profits from.
- emodendroket 10y ago"In popular culture" sections almost never add anything, yeah.
- emodendroket 10y agoI didn't know people took all the "Wikigroaning" stuff seriously.