[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia broken

Fri Apr 7 12:36:15 UTC 2006

On 07/04/06, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly at pobox.com> wrote:
> At 07:17 -0400 7/4/06, Sydney Poore wrote:
> >Serious encyclopedia means leaving out material that is not
> >encyclopedic.  Too many editors are stretching the meaning of
> >encyclopedic to include anything that can be sourced. During Afd, it
> >is very common for editors to cite tabloids, forums or publicly
> >written dictionaries such as Urban Dictionary.
> >http://www.urbandictionary.com/. Since it takes a super majority to
> >delete, often the outcome is no consensus and the material stays.
>
> But surely a word, a work or art, a meme, or artifact, can be created
> today and archived contemporaneously?

We require not only verifiability, but notability. I can create
something today and document it today, but - save in rare
circumstances - I cannot prove its importance today.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk