[WikiEN-l] I believe I called this some time ago...

joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu
Fri Nov 9 19:07:14 UTC 2007


Quoting Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net>:

> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:29:17 -0500, joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu wrote:
>
>> We could change the name of Notability to some other term. I'd almost
>> be tempted
>> to suggest a nonsense word or something completely unrelated to make
>> clear that
>> we're not talking about notability in the colloquial sense. Instead of
>> notability why not say "Ardvarkness"? Articles are included if they have
>> Ardvarkness?
>
> Sorry, aardvark, wombat and echidna are all taken.
>
> What is wrong with "encyclopaedic" though?

That would have another advantage- people wouldn't be able to keep calling for
deletion of topics that have sources by saying it isn't "encyclopaedic".





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