[WikiEN-l] GNAA Deleted!

Wed Nov 29 05:20:45 UTC 2006

George Herbert wrote:
> 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....
> 

(Offline at the moment, so I can't read the article) - Was Warlord from MIT?

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