On 07/04/06, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
At 07:17 -0400 7/4/06, Sydney Poore wrote:
Serious encyclopedia means leaving out material that is not encyclopedic. Too many editors are stretching the meaning of encyclopedic to include anything that can be sourced. During Afd, it is very common for editors to cite tabloids, forums or publicly written dictionaries such as Urban Dictionary. http://www.urbandictionary.com/. Since it takes a super majority to delete, often the outcome is no consensus and the material stays.
But surely a word, a work or art, a meme, or artifact, can be created today and archived contemporaneously?
We require not only verifiability, but notability. I can create something today and document it today, but - save in rare circumstances - I cannot prove its importance today.
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk