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Phil Boswell wrote:
"Alphax" <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote
in
message news:435F6564.4010207@gmail.com...
[snip]
"Is noted outside of the community it
originated" is one of the things I
tried to pin to the "notable" tag (foolish me). By that I mean: "has
received attention outside of its own fandom".
So, a website which sells widgets and is unknown outside of the widget
community should not have an article; a website which is reasonably
well-known in the widget community should be mentioned in the article on
widgets; and a website which sells widgets, well known within the widget
community, /which has been Slashdotted/, could have it's own article.
The problem here is that there are many people/things which are extremely
interesting but---until we write about them---all but unknown **outside
their particular subject community**.
For example, I doubt if I could name half-a-dozen Particle Physicists. I'll
bet you there are ten times that many who deserve an article of their own,
but you'd be hard put to it to convince some of the hard-core AFD
deletionists of it, because they simply vote "nn, never heard of them"
without even giving the appearance of reading the article.
Alright, I admit it, it's a stupid idea.
What I can't understand is that I come to an
encyclopaedia wanting to find
things I **don't** already know about, not endless regurgitation of stuff I
already knew. So rejecting an article on the grounds that I don't already
know the subject matter seems nonsensical to me.
Am I alone?
No. It's just difficult to get one's head around all this...
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