[WikiEN-l] Cory Doctorow: Wikipedia is facts-about-facts

[Carcharoth]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:57 AM, George Herbert
<george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Charles Matthews
> <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> David Gerard wrote:
>>> http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol20/?pg=16
>>>
>> Argument intelligent enough, use of "notable" is off-base though since
>> for us notability is an attribute of topics.
>
> He's describing WP for an external audience.  Not his fault that we
> have internal jargon which is not entirely aligned with outside
> standard english.

Actually, Charles was probably referring to these sentences:

"...the debate over which sources are notable..."

"...since there's consensus that the [New York] Times is a notable source..."

Doctorow (the author of the article) should have said *reliable*
sources, not notable sources.

Carcharoth