[WikiEN-l] NewYorkBrad leaving

[Angela Anuszewski]

On 6/30/08, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2008/6/30 Angela Anuszewski <angela.anuszewski at gmail.com>:
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> >> What happened to the Daniel Brandt article?  Is he not notable?
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> > If I never subscribed to this mailing list, I would have never heard of
> > him.  :)
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> Am I one of the few people who had heard of him? He was that
> anti-Google crank who ascribed his low search ranking to malice on
> their part. Of course, since then he's worked extremely hard to make
> himself as famous as possible, using Wikipedia to this purpose.


The first time I read his name I wondered if he was the same Danny Brandt
that subbed for Jim West in Weird Al's band when I saw them at Tag's Tavern
in Elmyra NY in 2000... I was relieved to find out it wasn't... I couldn't
imagine that Danny Brandt being that much of a jerk. ;-)