[Wikipedia-l] Wiki about every person in the world

Sun Nov 20 14:26:43 UTC 2005

On 11/20/05, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> Websites and webpages are a much different story than people.  I can't
> think of any reason to ever have an entire article about a web page.
> Maybe you could prove me wrong, though.
>
> For websites on the other hand it really depends on how longstanding
> the site is.  But if the site is longstanding enough to have been
> written about in acceptable third-party sources then it's probably big
> enough to include in an encyclopedia.
>
> Duck and Cover is definitely something I'd like to see in Wikipedia.
> I'm not sure how much *could* be said about it that would fall under
> the rules of NPOV, verifiability, and no original research (in fact,
> though it claims to have been made in 1998 Internet Archive only goes
> back to 2004), but assuming the facts in the article could be fact
> checked, I think it should be included (and therefore, it is notable).

I wasn't quite expecting to, but I entirely agree with you here.

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Sam