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[edit] Polymaths

Greetings! I would also disagree with you that "knowing insane amounts of trivia" qualifies as having "an extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge" -- Jeopardy-style questions tend to be surface-level questions; they have to be. So broad, yes, but comprehensive? We don't know from his show appearances alone. I don't see much evidence in his bio and other online info that he's unusually accomplished outside of Jeopardy; general usage of the term implies a Renaissance man-type figure, with a wide range of accomplishments. Leonardo da Vinci springs to mind, Ken Jennings does not. Copying this (slightly edited) to Talk:List of polymaths. Mindspillage | spill your mind? 03:15, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I don't know, really, how you'd compromise; in such a list you can either list him or not list him. I think his article makes clear how successful he was on the show; further information about his knowledge and accomplishments would fit best there. As it is there are lots of software engineers in the world with heads full of trivia (quite a few work on Wikipedia, in fact :-)) who are not considered polymaths. I can't make a very strong case for his inclusion. Not yet, anyhow. Mindspillage | spill your mind? 03:37, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ken Jennings as a polymath

Then where should I put it?

It depends. If this is out of personal interest, use your user page or somewhere other than wikipedia. If it's an article content dispute, the talk page of the article in question would seem to be an appropriate location. --fvw* 00:15, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)
I put the question both on the polymath talk page and the list of polymaths talk page. But I wanted a place where more people can see... the wikipedia talk page. Where else should I?
See Requests for Comment. --fvw* 00:23, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)