"Anthere" anthere9@yahoo.com wrote in message news:4283EC15.50408@yahoo.com...
Tony Sidaway a écrit:
Poor, Edmund W said:
Why not write a Wikipedia about Wollman, if he's that fascinating? If it survives the VFD process, than that might give us an excuse to mention him via a link from kooks newsgroup. But if it fails a vfd vote, that's pretty conclusive evidence that he's "non-notable".
Been there, done that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Edmond_Wollmann
The page leads nowhere... so, why was it deleted ?
From a quick perusal and in very broad terms, because people are confusing
"non-encyclopaedic" with "non-notable".
Unless I'm very much mistaken, the idea of constructing an encyclopaedia is to gather together crumbs of information that individually are not particularly helpful to construct a whole which is.
There seems to be a group of people who are intent on pulling out the centre of the loaf, leaving just the crust which will then implode under its own weight.
The attitude of "well I've never heard of him so he can't deserve an article" is entirely too prevalent and needs to be addressed before we turn into just a list of people *everybody* knows about already.