On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
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:
Does the Grinch hang out at AfD? Another theory I have is that some
articles are so obscure they don't even get noticed there. Or they
have references on them sufficient to sustain borderline notability.
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.
Sounds like Zeno's Paradox.
There will always be people adding interesting
material to Wikipedia.
Don't get me wrong. I like interesting stubs as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._M._Hedges
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Street,_Jr.
But some articles are unlikely to be anything more than stubs.
Sometimes I've put such information in footnotes to an article, rather
than create a new article.
Carcharoth