Wikipedia needs to decide its direction. It has long endured a civil war between the inclusionists and exclusionists, who both represent competing visions for Wikipedia's future. The inclusionists believe that as bandwidth and physical data space become increasingly cheaper, the need to filter articles based on notability is unsubstantiated. Exclusionists, on the other hand, wish to bring a sense of universal validity to Wikipedia, which necessitates the banishment of obscure and popular-culture phenomena.
