[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Thu May 26 00:19:15 UTC 2011


> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 23:57, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
>> If there weren't any anti-scientology campaigners spreading the word
>> about
>> Xenu, we'd still have a reason to have an article about Xenu.  If there
>> was
>> no
>> anti-Santorum campaign, we'd have no reason for the article--its entire
>> existence depends directly on that campaign.
>>
>
> Yes, but there *is* such a campaign.
>
> If there weren't a tea party movement, we wouldn't have an article on
> the tea party movement.
>
> But there is. So we do.
>
> If there weren't a neologism named after Mr. Santorum, there wouldn't
> be an article on it.
>
> But there is. So we do.
>
> --
> Tom Morris
> <http://tommorris.org/>

No question the subject is notable. The question is how to handle it
appropriately.

Fred




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