QUOTE(MZMcBride @ Wed 24th February 2010, 5:36pm)
QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 24th February 2010, 10:16am)
Couple more articles absent from Wikipedia come to mind today in the kitchen:
"Ice cream scoop" should be a redirect to
Scoop (utensil). "Apple corer" could and probably should be a redirect to
Apple core (or
Kitchen gadget). unless there's some sordid history to the tool that would justify a separate article.
Strongly disagree. In my opinion, it's articles like these where Wikipedia can add value to society. Wikipedia will never in a million years write the world's best piece on World War Two or Aristotle or neorealism. These areas are the preserve of real scholars.
But where does Wikipedia's advantage lie? In writing about the ice cream scoop. Ice cream scoops are interesting, I would like to know more about them, but scholars (rightly) ignore them as subjects of rather trivial interest. This leaves an opening, a niche that needs to be filled, and it is into this area that Wikipedia should boldly go (along with others such as Simpsons trivia, etc.). Stop wasting time writing about philosophers when the IEP and SEP will always do it better, and start writing the articles that only Wikipedia can do well.