On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:48:53 +0000, Carcharoth wrote:
> Some people think junk isn't junk. Or rather, one's person's junk is
> another person's treasure. Not that obscure articles that can be
> rescued are really treasure, but you get the point.
Yes... case in point, when you do a New York Times archive search for
"comic books" in the range 1851-1980, you turn up this article from
1955:
NORWICH, Conn., Feb. 26 (UP) -- The American Legion Auxiliary carried
out a "very successful" two-hour drive today to rid the city of
objectionable comic books...
and right next to it, this one from 1972:
Yale Students Feast on Rare Comic Books Under Glass
NEW HAVEN, May 12 -- The display of an extensive collection of comic
books from the nineteen-thirties through the fifties has unexpectedly
proved to be the most popular exhibition within recent memory at Yale
University....
(Other articles on the first page of results vary from ones
describing comic-book burnings in the 1940s and 1950s to ones
describing comic book conventions and the escalating value of rare
comics in the 1960s and 1970s.)
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On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:43:58 +1100, Steve Bennett wrote:
> I agree with the statement that it should not be in that category.
> Essentially, because schrodinger's cat is not a cat. Felix the Cat is
> a fictional cat. Simba the lion is a fictional cat, in a broader
> sense. Schrodinger's cat is a concept in physics that has nothing to
> do with cats or fiction. There is no notable fiction in which
> Schrodinger's cat features heavily, for example.
This discussion led me to go check out the "cat cat[egory]", and find
that, inexplicably, Felix the Cat was omitted. I remedied that.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6250515/Wikipedia-20-articl…
When a friend forwarded this I assumed it was going to be a
depressing read, filled with useful gems which had been lost due
to the cruel symbiosis between processmongering and deletionism,
but you know, in these 20 cases at least, I think we got it right.
G'day folks,
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/contextual-search-within-wikipedia.h…
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