Not sure technology is the best place to put this…any suggestions for a cross post?

  • Aatube
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    47 months ago

    Why should encyclopedias include every single road in the USA?

    • @tal
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      27 months ago

      I feel like any realistic criteria for usefulness would place a real-life road over obscure comic book characters, which are pretty extensively documented in Wikipedia.

      googles for a random example

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magician_from_Mars

      This character appeared in five comic book issues around winter 1939-1940.

      I’m not saying that they don’t deserve a Wikipedia article. But I have a hard time believing that there is more need for information about a character that appeared in a few comic book issues eighty years back than a road that people are actually making use of today.

      • Aatube
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        7 months ago

        I mean, there are at most 500 pages on Golden Age Superheroes yet over 1000 on New York roads alone.