Only an IA would have a favourite Wikipedia category. Mine is currently Fictional computers, as stumbled across when constructing a clumsy Skynet-related metaphor.
(From here I found out about Heinlein’s Mycroft Holmes computer which would have shared a namesake with my husband if my father-in-law had got his own way.)
This category particularly appealed to me as the person responsible many years back for the rather ludicrous plant CV at the BBC. I repeatedly had to explain that it wasn’t a list of plant species but, well, plant personalities such as Major Oak, General Sherman tree, Pando and Methuselah. Famous plants… I don’t know what I was thinking (although I am relieved to see Wikipedia has a page for each of the above).
I’ve also always had a soft spot for the Dictionary of Imaginary Places. Fictional locations also caused a more potentially controversial dilemma for the CV management team. Should heaven be a ‘location’ or a ‘fictional place’?
Of course, the sensible decision is the coward’s classification of ‘religious concepts’.
Martin Belam | 10-Jan-08 at 7:50 am | Permalink
Similarly, I was heartily amused to see a breakdown of the names of people being searched for on the BBC site back in September. They’d been divided into ‘people’ and ‘dead people’. Jesus featured in the latter list, which I thought posed quite an interesting theological dilemma.