Is this group itself even notable? 5,100 Google hits, and minusing the Usenet indexes, thats not much.
As for mentioning names, I think it is fine, if presented in the right way. Saying "Given the 'honour' of being named 'Kook of the Year'" isn't really the way to put it, as stating 'honour' in quotation marks is NPOV in itself. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Gerard" fun@thingy.apana.org.au To: slimvirgin@gmail.com; "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Abuse of your services
slimvirgin@gmail.com (slimvirgin@gmail.com) [050506 06:15]:
On 5/5/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Actually famous Usenet crank. More coherent than Sollog. Lots of
material
on skeptictank.com .
I think the point here is that WP policy states that we must used only reputable or credible published sources as secondary sources, and Usenet doesn't count as that. It can be used as primary-source material for information about itself, but it can't be used as a secondary source of information about someone else, especially not when we're using a person's real name (unlike the case of Sollog).
Uh, [[alt.usenet.kooks]] is an article about a Usenet group.
- d.
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