[WikiEN-l] The schools table

Tony Sidaway minorityreport at bluebottle.com
Wed May 18 19:14:45 UTC 2005


Gregory Maxwell said:
> On 5/18/05, Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
>> Not quite.  Most of the nominations seemed to be of rather recent
>> articles--one was only two days old and quite a decent stub,
>> considering.The older articles tended to show signs of organic growth.
>> There are about twenty actual examples, with dates and history link,
>> here:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Schools#The_schools_table
>
> Right, most of them are new, but not all.
> What initially caught my attention were the less excusable ones.

What initially caught my attention was the apparently indiscriminate
nature of the listing.

> I'm sure there are, heaven forbid, notable schools in wikipedia too.
> But it seems that no one is nominating them for VFD.

Notability is not really definable.  Jimbo has even suggested that it's a
proxy for verifiability.




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