American popular opinion on invasion of Iraq yes, thats fine. But an article
about the spesific poll is not. An article on wikipedia is fine, an article
on every minor dispute is not.
- White Cat
On 6/27/07, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/27/07, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Headline on CNN right now is "Poll: War
support at new low" do we have
an
article of this poll? We write articles on events
unless they are
notable
enough for the entire year rather than day.
[[American popular opinion on invasion of Iraq]]
A notable event would be Jimbo deciding to shut
down the site
(wikipedia)
for example which would IMHO only be notable
enough to be mentioned on
the
article on [[Wikipedia]]. Probably the coverage
would be one or two
lines,
max a paragraph. Not a full article, that can be
on wikinews (maybe).
Essjay
incident however isn't even worth a single
line mention on article
namespace.
I also think that Essjay article is in violation of the spirit of "right
to
vanish". I do not particularly
''like'' Essjay but this mocking of him
even
bothers me. I ask myself this question:
"will I be mistreated like him
if
circumstances are right?"
The spirit of "right to vanish" is one important to MeatballWiki, not
to an encyclopedia. In fact, it contravenes the mission of Wikipedia.
Sorry, but them's the breaks.
On 6/27/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Jun 25, 2007, at 8:30 PM, George Herbert wrote:
> > On 6/25/07, Anirudh <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1) An incident which has coverage (in some cases front-page) in most
> > major US newspapers and newsmagazines rises to the level of
notability
under any rational interpretation of the word.
In many cases, yes. But actually in most cases, no.
Here's a very big routine news story today:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6238740.stm
Widely covered:
http://news.google.com/news?tab=wn&client=firefox-
a&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%
3Aofficial&ncl=1117582711&hl=en
But I think we can all say that this study does not deserve an
encyclopedia article. It's just a routine "filler" news story.
I think if you survey the front page of CNN or BBC or the New York
Times each day, you will find that the vast majority of news stories
are not about things which are encyclopedic in nature, and we end up
not writing about most of them.
This may or may not have relevance in the EssJay notability debate,
but just saying "it was in a lot of newspapers" doesn't really help
settle the issue.
--Jimbo
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