On Sat, 12 May 2007 02:48:09 -0700, "Matthew Brown" <morven(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
If Wikipedia doesn't have information about it
because nobody's
written about it yet, that's one thing. However, if Wikipedia doesn't
have information about something because somebody has arbitarily
deemed it "not notable enough", then I'm irritated.
This rather ignores the fact that Wikipedia's top ten status means
that it is the first port of call for those who want to /make/
something notable.
I get some tens of thousands of hits per month on my personal website,
and I am on the editorial board of another site that gets similar
levels of traffic. Plus, Chris Boardman apparently linked my site in
an article he wrote for Pro Cycling this month. It is reasonable to
assume, from your argument, that I should have a Wikipedia article,
because people will want to know about me. I disagree with that,
obviously.
In practice, the notion that "people will want to know about it" is
most often asserted by those creating articles on subjects with which
they have a self-evident personal involvement. And about 2/3 of those
are garage bands.
All of which is a roundabout way of saying, do you genuinely think
that every band with a MySpace should have a Wikipedia article?
Guy (JzG)
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