It's a pretty goofy concept to have such a Wikipedia entry. I'm inclined to use the Wikipedia process to nominate it for deletion, but that looks a bit involved for the time I have available right now.

T

Wikipedia also has other important lists, such as Star Trek races, characters on The Simpsons, fictional computers, members of the League of Superheroes, and “literature” about sadomasochism. Somehow I doubt that many people, authors aside, are taking these lists very seriously, and the best way to deal with them is the same as it is for the rest of Wikipedia: remind people what an unreliable mess the whole thing is.

It's not that this list is unimportant, it's that it is not worth attempting because of the number of typefaces out there. All those other lists are likely to be shorter (except maybe the Simpsons characters, but even then one can imagine objective criteria for inclusion).

As for Wikipedia reliability, it's in the same league as any other encyclopedia.

BTW, that's Legion of Superheroes.... :)

T

Wikipedia's official guidelines discourage the creation of lists in article format within the main encyclopedia namespace. Regardless, Wikipedia contains a plethora of such lists.

The established alternative to manually-created lists is Categories. Categories are self-building lists, built up automatically by placing Category tags in relevant articles.

A category for Typography exists. At the top are sub-categories. No category called Font or Typeface exists yet. I can look into creating that if typophiles are interested.

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