User:Tonymetz/sandbox/essays

= Essays =

Over-weighting alt-right, far-right, radical right ? Who manages the big picture?
Imagine we are a a paper encyclopedia for a sec. Imagine how many volumes on a shelf there would be for "far right" politics. Alt-right, Far-right politics, Radical right (United States), Radical right (Europe) Far-right politics in Australia, Far-right politics in Serbia, Far-right politics in Croatia, .. (and 30 more countries). We would have an encyclopedia with shelves and shelves of   right politics in  combinations saying mostly the same thing.

Are we giving a bit too much attention to this topic?

We obsess over WP:WEIGHT constantly, is anyone looking at the WP:WEIGHT of the encyclopedia? I remember there were debates over whether TV show characters should have Articles. Is there anywhere to discuss how much weight / attention a topic should have on the encyclopedia?

I get that you can analyze journalism topic rates over the past decade and see an explosion of coverage of far-right politics. That doesn't mean the same preponderance should exist in an encyclopedia. The topic deserves due coverage and weight among all of the topics of human knowledge.

I'm not talking about bias here, I'm talking about quality. If we had 1000 articles on the Roman Empire and 3 articles on the British Empire, I would say it's time to assess how to manage that imbalance. Who knows why we have so many articles on this topic? Has anyone cared to even look into it?