On Sat, 12 May 2007 02:48:09 -0700, "Matthew Brown" morven@gmail.com wrote:
If Wikipedia doesn't have information about it because nobody's written about it yet, that's one thing. However, if Wikipedia doesn't have information about something because somebody has arbitarily deemed it "not notable enough", then I'm irritated.
This rather ignores the fact that Wikipedia's top ten status means that it is the first port of call for those who want to /make/ something notable.
I get some tens of thousands of hits per month on my personal website, and I am on the editorial board of another site that gets similar levels of traffic. Plus, Chris Boardman apparently linked my site in an article he wrote for Pro Cycling this month. It is reasonable to assume, from your argument, that I should have a Wikipedia article, because people will want to know about me. I disagree with that, obviously.
In practice, the notion that "people will want to know about it" is most often asserted by those creating articles on subjects with which they have a self-evident personal involvement. And about 2/3 of those are garage bands.
All of which is a roundabout way of saying, do you genuinely think that every band with a MySpace should have a Wikipedia article?
Guy (JzG)