[WikiEN-l] The Economist on "notability"

[Philip Sandifer]

On Mar 7, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Charlotte Webb wrote:

>> While I agree that "notability" issues are poorly handled as a rule,
> regardless, I would have to know the nature of the press attention in
> question to decide whether it is a factor in the poor handling of
> "notability" issues. Could you clarify?

Generally when we get press attention on a notability issue we get a  
chunk of people who show up, usually outraged at the deletion/proposed  
deletion/merger/whatever. Our track record on being nice to such  
people and listening to their concerns is... dubious at best.  
Generally we triumphantly dismiss all of them as meatpuppets and act  
as though their existence is further argument for the marginality of  
the subject.

It's very ugly.

-Phil