[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia broken

Fri Apr 7 17:52:51 UTC 2006

On 4/7/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/7/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If something is referenced by a third-party reliable source today,
> chances are it's important.

I'd strongly dispute that.  Because of the ease and speed of
record-keeping and publishing, it's very easy to get third-party
information on something.

For example, I could create thousands of stub articles on small
private schools in Michigan.  But I'd describe them as extremely
non-notable: every last one of them has students from only a single
family, often only a single student, and exists as a "private school"
with significant government records only because of a quirk in the
Michigan homeschooling law.

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Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]