<DIV>Yeah, I had no problem with leaving Louis' Lunch in there, but it was the three other pizza places that he kept trying to re-insert. I haven't checked the latest version yet, if he's willing to leave those out then I'm satisfied.</DIV>
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<DIV>But what do we do in the future if an editor insists on adding two or three stores or restaurants and won't let the ads be removed?</DIV>
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<DIV>RickK<BR><BR><B><I>Jimmy Wales <jwales@bomis.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>Rick wrote:<BR>> [[User:Nunh-huh]] insists on including three pizza places and a<BR>>restaurant on the New Haven page. I've been trying to delete them but<BR>>he won't let me. When I suggested that if he's going to list them he<BR>>should add several others, he said that I needed to add them if I<BR>>thought they should be included. Isn't it POV to list only a very few<BR>>of the hundreds of stores in a city's list? Isn't this free<BR>>advertising?<BR><BR>I'd say that it depends on the entire context. It can certainly be<BR>valid to mention some restaurants or establishments of any type in an<BR>article, if they are actually of some cultural importance in that<BR>city.<BR><BR>It seems that on the last revision, Nunh-huh is agreeing to leave out<BR>the pizza joints, but wants to leave in the refernece to Louis' Lunch.<BR>If the description is true _and
verifiable_, then it should stay,<BR>because a restaurant that claims to have invented the hamburger and<BR>which has "queues ten deep at lunchtime" does sound like a useful bit<BR>of local color/culture for the article.<BR><BR>http://www.louislunch.com/ has several links to newspaper articles and<BR>the Library of Congress which appear to confirm the cultural<BR>importance of this place.<BR><BR>By and large, we can do away with disputes of this type by simply<BR>citing confirmability. In this case, the info about Louis' Lunch<BR>appears to meet that test. For the others, I didn't check.<BR><BR>--Jimbo<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>WikiEN-l mailing list<BR>WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org<BR>http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l</BLOCKQUOTE><p><font face=arial size=-1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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