On 2/27/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/27/07, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
*Not my intent, but also not my concern. I continue to believe that Wikipedia should stop putting on airs about legitimacy
We do what?
I think that Tim Noah misunderstands what's going on there. A lot of our notability guidelines appear to have been created out of a fear of not looking legitimate and acceptable - "How can we be accepted as a serious encyclopedia when we have articles about <xxx>?"
Wikipedia would do well to be less paranoid about external perception. For one thing, our articles on less conventional topics are very useful to our readers.
-Matt