[WikiEN-l] GNAA Deleted!

Tue Nov 28 21:47:44 UTC 2006

On 11/28/06, Tony Jacobs <gtjacobs at hotmail.com> wrote:

> What definition of "notable" are you using?  The only definition of that
> word that matters at Wikipedia is: "A topic is notable if it has been the
> subject of multiple, non-trivial published works whose sources are
> independent of the subject itself."  That's not true of GNAA, ergo they're
> not "notable", which simply means that it's impossible to write a properly
> verifiable article about them.  We don't want to keep an unverfiable
> article
> around, no matter how much "consensus" may hoot and holler for it, so we
> delete it.
>
> People who want to know about GNAA can still look them up at ED, which has
> no problem covering topics that we eschew.
>

The problem with this trend is that it relegates certain aspects of internet
culture which tend not to get press coverage into the dustbin.

As much as I hate GNAA and everyone involved in it, it IS notable among the
realm of internet troll activities.

If we have the (harmless, real, but equally badly documented)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.fan.warlord entry....

-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com