[WikiEN-l] iCorrect

[Fred Bauder]

A well known, even notorious, joint in 1910... as O. Henry was a well
known writer. Joel's Cafe could be linked from O. Henry, but it is hard
to know how much he hung out there.

The Grinch successfully stole Christmas but Wikipedia is more like The
Gingerbread Man:

I am I am a gingerbread man. So I run, I run as fast as I can. And you
And you can't catch me. I am I am the fastest. You can't You can't get
me.

There will always be people adding interesting material to Wikipedia.

Fred

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't get the connection.
>
> Do you mean this O. Henry?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry
>
> Maybe if I read that article things will become clearer?
>
> And the Joel Renaldo article is the very definition of an orphan:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Renaldo
>
> My other theory is that writing stand-alone articles is not a good
> thing in the long-run. Articles should be created if there is a demand
> for the articles from people *other* than those creating the articles.
> In other words, enough *independent* and reasonable mentions/links in
> other Wikipedia articles.
>
> This prevents Wikipedia from disappearing up the fundament of its own
> obscurity. i.e. Create articles that will be found by people arriving
> from other articles, not obscure standalone articles that don't help
> fill in redlinks elsewhere on Wikipedia.
>
> Carcharoth
>