I think the biggest problem he mentioned is the "exclusionists." There's no harm in including a page on every local elected official, every Nobel prize winner, even every band that has a reference or two somewhere. Most likely it will remain a little article, but so what? The history of small local bands, for example, would be very interesting 100, 200 years from now. (Wouldn't it be fun to read about some town's local musical groups in 18th century America?)