On 22 January 2012 23:08, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> They can do what academics have always done: read each other's >> published works and go to conferences. If a subject is so obscure that >> only a handle of researchers are involved in it, then it probably >> isn't sufficiently notable to have a Wikipedia article anyway. > > That's exactly an "egg first or chicken first" problem. Great > discoveries almost always come from rarely known ideas.
I don't see a problem. Academia is very good at coming up with new ideas that start off very small and obscure and, if they prove promising, grow and become mainstream. It is only once they have grown, at least a little, that they become appropriate subject-matter for an encyclopaedia. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
