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

[George Herbert]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Ah, missed that.  I sit corrected.



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-george william herbert
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