On 4/7/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
I'd strongly dispute that. Because of the ease and speed of record-keeping and publishing, it's very easy to get third-party information on something.
For example, I could create thousands of stub articles on small private schools in Michigan. But I'd describe them as extremely non-notable: every last one of them has students from only a single family, often only a single student, and exists as a "private school" with significant government records only because of a quirk in the Michigan homeschooling law.
Noted, my statement was vaguer than I meant. I meant, if a newspaper article is published today about an event or entity that happen/was created today, then the chances are, that thing is notable. Otherwise it would take longer than 24 hours for it to become newsworthy.
Steve