User talk:Duneflower

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[edit] Please consider taking the AGF Challenge

I would like to invite you to consider taking part in the AGF Challenge which has been proposed for use in the RfA process [1] by User: Kim Bruning. You can answer in multiple choice format, or using essay answers, or anonymously. You can of course skip any parts of the Challenge you find objectionable or inadvisable.--Filll (talk) 13:29, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sure

Sure, that is a very logical way of thinking. It's just that Wikipedia wants to be accepted, not right. Thus, going by prominence rather than complexity or rightness helps it to be popular.

Also, when you have an idea which hasn't gotten any mainstream press, you have a sourcing problem. Because WP wants to be accepted, therefore wants to be mainstream, and therefore wants to be based on mainstream sources, at least partly.

The whole thing may serve to keep WP out of the land of untrue ideas to some extent, and it very much makes it more mainstream. It isn't about truth or sense, it's about making an encyclopedia which will be acceptable to a wide range of people. An encyclopedia which will be used. Think of WP as having rules which make it like a mainstream newspaper: it wants to be popular, and also to not be attacked by those who think its ideas are wrong. ——Martin^phi ☎ Ψ Φ—— 17:27, 9 May 2008 (UTC)