WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 4/27/2009 11:27:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, carcharothwp@googlemail.com writes:
"Yes, the sources we have are unlikely to be wrong about the architectural merits, and quite possibly the building will be mentioned in some other local history books - it is just that this won't google up."
Doc's saying that people delete based on Google results.>>
Google Books changes everything. If they delete based on Google and fail to search Google Books for items of historical note then they are acting without a duty of actual research.
I'm not saying that people should delete based on Google results in the first place. In fact I am the one who put that note on historical subjects into the policy in the first place a few years back. Subjects who are not necessarily currently talked-up might have been quite the popular rage back in 1920 or 1920 or 1420, and should not be deleted based on current Google searches.
With Google Books we can now allow the Chair Potato to see that for themselves.
Will Johnson
Google books is fine, as is google itself.
Neither is a substitute for common sense.
I'll take the subjectivity of human common sense over the arithmetic of search engines any day.