[WikiEN-l] Notability in Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

2009/4/27  <WJhonson at aol.com>:

> I'm not saying that people should delete based on Google results in the
> first place.  In fact I am the one who put that note on historical subjects
> into the policy in the first place a few years back.  Subjects who are not
> necessarily currently talked-up might have been quite the popular rage back in
> 1920 or 1920 or 1420, and should not be deleted based on current Google
> searches.


I must say, the blindness of some AFD participants to anything that
happened before 1995 can be more than a little annoying ...


- d.