Fascinating! Only thing missing: An additional column for great Sci-Fi books that are inspired by the technology.
List of Emerging Technologies
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Re: List of Emerging Technologies
#12So wikipedia will happily delete things based on notability and such. How is it that this has escaped the cull? It's not the type of thing I'd expect to find in wikipedia at all. To be clear, I don't have a problem with technology X being in Wikipedia. Indeed I expect there to be a page, and it would probably be my first port of call for finding out more. My problem is with an editorialised list of 'Emerging Technolo…
I'm not sure if there's any official policy around this, but to me it seems that lists often get a less-stringent treatment than other article types on Wikipedia.
Here's a sampling of some other interesting list articles:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_w...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ballooning_accidents
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_deities_by_cultural_s...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_colors
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_bisexual_people
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_road_junctions_in_the_...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_websites
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports_teams_nicknamed...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_buns
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolves
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brand_name_condiments
And the all-time best:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
I, for one, am happy these exist, despite the editorialization, etc.
Re: List of Emerging Technologies
#13So wikipedia will happily delete things based on notability and such. How is it that this has escaped the cull? It's not the type of thing I'd expect to find in wikipedia at all. To be clear, I don't have a problem with technology X being in Wikipedia. Indeed I expect there to be a page, and it would probably be my first port of call for finding out more. My problem is with an editorialised list of 'Emerging Technolo…
I'm not sure if there's any official policy around this, but to me it seems that lists often get a less-stringent treatment than other article types on Wikipedia. Here's a sampling of some other interesting list articles: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_w... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ballooning_accidents - https://en.wik…
My prior comment did get a bit ranty.
Personally I'm a Wikipedia maximalist, it should record everything. They seem to have decided on a different path, partly on notability grounds, partly on the basis that its done elsewhere. That's fine as far as it goes but be consistent.
Lists make sense in a lot of contexts, lists of songs, albums, monarchs great. List of 'best' songs, 'greatest' monarchs, 'emerging' technologies, less so.
Re: List of Emerging Technologies
#14So wikipedia will happily delete things based on notability and such. How is it that this has escaped the cull? It's not the type of thing I'd expect to find in wikipedia at all. To be clear, I don't have a problem with technology X being in Wikipedia. Indeed I expect there to be a page, and it would probably be my first port of call for finding out more. My problem is with an editorialised list of 'Emerging Technolo…
I'm not sure if there's any official policy around this, but to me it seems that lists often get a less-stringent treatment than other article types on Wikipedia. Here's a sampling of some other interesting list articles: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_w... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ballooning_accidents - https://en.wik…
This is missing the list of sexually active popes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexually_active_pope...
Re: List of Emerging Technologies
#15Fascinating! Only thing missing: An additional column for great Sci-Fi books that are inspired by the technology.
Also, technologies that were first described in sci-fi books and then were developed (or had their feasibility studied) in the real world.
Re: List of Emerging Technologies
#16So wikipedia will happily delete things based on notability and such. How is it that this has escaped the cull? It's not the type of thing I'd expect to find in wikipedia at all. To be clear, I don't have a problem with technology X being in Wikipedia. Indeed I expect there to be a page, and it would probably be my first port of call for finding out more. My problem is with an editorialised list of 'Emerging Technolo…
I'm not sure if there's any official policy around this, but to me it seems that lists often get a less-stringent treatment than other article types on Wikipedia. Here's a sampling of some other interesting list articles: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_w... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ballooning_accidents - https://en.wik…
This is probably my favorite Wikipedia list (List of Common Misconceptions):