I do not think it means what you think it means

[kingandy]

To expand on a recent Twitter:

A lot of the time, people remove information from Wikipedia on the grounds that it's "unencyclopedic". Clearly the intended meaning of "encyclopedic" is "Like an encyclopedia" - and, indeed, that is one of the meanings suggested by the dictionaries, so it would be hard to argue that it was actually wrong per se.

However, the other meaning (and perhaps the more literal one) is "comprehensive" or "encompassing all knowledge," and it tickles me to think that people are removing data in the name of completeness...

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[stsquad.livejournal.com]

The deletionists on Wikipedia annoy the hell out of me. But if your not in the Wikipedia cabal rolling back their decisions involves a lot of messing about and effort which kinda defeats the point of wikipedia being easy to edit and change.