Is this group itself even notable? 5,100 Google hits, and minusing the
Usenet indexes, thats not much.
As for mentioning names, I think it is fine, if presented in the right way.
Saying "Given the 'honour' of being named 'Kook of the Year'"
isn't really
the way to put it, as stating 'honour' in quotation marks is NPOV in itself.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gerard" <fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au>
To: <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com>om>; "English Wikipedia"
<wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Abuse of your services
slimvirgin(a)gmail.com (slimvirgin(a)gmail.com) [050506
06:15]:
On 5/5/05, David Gerard
<fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > Actually famous Usenet crank. More coherent than Sollog. Lots of
material
I think the point here is that WP policy states
that we must used only
reputable or credible published sources as secondary sources, and
Usenet doesn't count as that. It can be used as primary-source
material for information about itself, but it can't be used as a
secondary source of information about someone else, especially not
when we're using a person's real name (unlike the case of Sollog).
Uh, [[alt.usenet.kooks]] is an article about a Usenet group.
- d.
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