On 31/12/2007, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/31/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Remember that "notability" is a
Wikipedia jargon word back-formed from
> the use of "non-notable" on AFD to mean "I've never heard of
it."
Really?
Really. "Non-notable" was VFD speak for "I don't like it" or
"I've
never heard of it." From this came the back-formation "notable" and a
series of specious "notability" guidelines which have somehow failed
to collapse under their own weight.
- d.