On 0, Blu Aardvark <jeffrey.latham(a)gmail.com> scribbled:
Why does Wikipedia have to have an entry on everything
that is reported
by some media source or other?
Yes, the event was covered by a few reliable sources, but it didn't take
long for the media to forget all about it. And nobody will even give a
rat's behind about the Essjay Controversy in five, ten years, except for
maybe a few Wikipedia users who were affected by it. Just because a
person or event made some headlines doesn't necessarily mean that that
person or event is notable. Oh, it's *verifiable*, to be sure, but
verifiability is not the same as notability, or else Wikipedia would
have articles on anyone who has ever made their local rag. (Nobody is
arguing for that. At least, I hope nobody is...)
...
You know, people made the exact same argument against having the Seigenthaler mess be
covered in an article. Yet it is even now, 3(?) years later a staple of articles (both
journalistic and scholarly) on Wikipedia and even mentioned in the EB article on
Wikipedia. Why should we believe that this argument would be valid for the case of Essjay
when it was not for Seigenthaler?
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