Jimmy Wales

But could we have an article about that very Bic pen?

in your hand.

So, Lex Friedman's big pen as of this week.

Oh, the very, this instance.

The very specific instance.

And the answer is no, there's not much known about it, I dare say, unless, you know, it's very special to you and your great-grandmother gave it to you or something.

You probably know very little about it.

It's a pen.

It's just here in the office.

So, that's just to show there is a limit.

I mean, in German Wikipedia, they used to talk about

the rear nut of the wheel of Uli Fuchs' bicycle, Uli Fuchs, the well-known Wikipedian of the time, to sort of illustrate, like, you can't have an article about literally everything.

And so then it raises the question, what can you have an article about?

What can't you?

And that can vary depending on the subject matter.

One of the areas where we try to be much more careful would be biographies.

The reason is a biography of a living person, if you get it wrong, it can actually be quite hurtful, quite damaging.

And so if someone is a private person and somebody tries to create a Wikipedia entry, there's no way to update it.

There's not much done.

So, for example, an encyclopedia article about my mother.