Christopher Mahan wrote:
I guess being facetious is hard to recognize.
Oh, well, I took you seriously, and I think you were right. :-)
When I say something is good enough for getting
results from search
engines, I am not speaking too highly of the content.
For a long time, our most popular pages were the 9/11 pages, due
primarily to traffic from the search engines. Attracting new people
to wikipedia, getting the name before lots of people, is a valid goal.
Not, obviously, our only goal, not even close. But it can weigh into
our overall evaluation of specific pages. It can't override
violations of our NPOV principles, for example, but it can permit us
to keep some pages that we otherwise find silly or trivial.
I'll post later today a list of pages ranked by how popular they are
with google. That should be interesting, anyway.
--Jimbo