In a message dated 8/8/2008 2:10:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bryan.derksen@shaw.ca writes:
Or alternately, that articles on pop culture subjects more frequently have people gunning for their deletion, and lack of references is an easy way to try accomplishing that. Few people are going to challenge an article on a 19th century poet.>>
-------- You'd be surprised. Typically pop culture subjects don't fail from a lack of references. Although at first people might try to use fan sites or other poor web sites, typically you can find any number of newspaper articles about some pop culture item.
I have had articles on older subjects challenged based on not being to find much in Google. One in particular which springs to mind dealt with a teacher/doctor who was important in the history of Seattle. This particular person had an elementary school named *for* him and yet was challenged on notability grounds. IIRC the article actually went through an AfD.
Which begs the question of whether we need to make it clear that "If someone has a large structure named FOR them, then obviously they are *notable* no matter what you can or can't find in Google."
Google is heavily weighted toward the last ten years, Google Books will change that, but only '''very'''' gradually. Will Johnson
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