[WikiEN-l] iCorrect

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Mon Mar 28 18:47:56 UTC 2011


> Good grief, Carcharoth, there it is!!!!! Brilliant!
>
> I've been stumbling about for years looking for a way to differentiate
> between legitimate encyclopaedic biography, which Wikipedia should do,
> and
> the problematic, armature-journalistic, selectively biased, originally
> researched, WP:NOTNEWS skirting, stuff that causes all the problems. If
> we
> could just agree on that definition you've given all would be well.
>
> No chance of that happening, unfortunately.
>
> Scott

Thank God!

Wikipedia:Ignore all rules is still policy.

I couldn't find an obituary for Joel Renaldo, but I still had a lot of
fun researching him. Anyone who doesn't think he is notable should ask O.
Henry, if you can find him these days.

Fred




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