[WikiEN-l] Notability in Wikipedia

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WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/27/2009 11:27:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> carcharothwp at googlemail.com writes:
> 
> 
>> "Yes, the sources we have are unlikely to be wrong about the
>> architectural merits, and quite possibly the building will be
>> mentioned in some other local history books - it is just that this
>> won't google up."
>>
>> Doc's saying that people delete based on Google results.>>
> 
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> 
> Google Books changes everything.
> If they delete based on Google and fail to search Google Books for items of 
> historical note then they are acting without a duty of actual research.
> 
> 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.
> 
> With Google Books we can now allow the Chair Potato to see that for 
> themselves.
> 
> Will Johnson
> 
> 

Google books is fine, as is google itself.

Neither is a substitute for common sense.

I'll take the subjectivity of human common sense over the arithmetic of 
search engines any day.