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Episode 69: Sixth Sense
Released: January 16 2009
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Roundtable Topics
Podcaster's Picks
Critical Issues and 2009 Predictions
- Deletionism
- IS Wikipedia news/journalism, distinction?
- Wikipedia becoming more like a conventional encyclopedia?
- Effects of deletion (discourages authors, maintains exemplar standards, restores low-hanging fruit, destroys quirky content that flourished early on...)
- Jimbo in 2003: "if someone wants to write an article about their high school, we should relax and accommodate them" (see
this current AfD)
Policies in conflict? Phil Sandifer's argument that NPOV and NOR contradict for some types of content (especially in the humanities)
Arbitration
Conflict of interest, undue influence?
Stratification of Wikipedian society?
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