--- Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
The attitude of "well I've never heard of him so he can't deserve an article" is entirely too prevalent and needs to be addressed before we turn into just a list of people *everybody* knows about already. -- Phil [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
Straw man. Not the prevalent idea at VfD at all, but then, it seems to be common argument of the radical inclusionist that things like [[List of pizza parlors in New York City]] is somehow an encylopedia article. It has nothing to do with "I've never heard of him" and everything to do with "He doesn't merit an article."
RickK
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But, then again, Wikipedia is a new kind of encyclopedia, so it may wind up having new kinds of encyclopedia articles.
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Rick wrote:
--- Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
The attitude of "well I've never heard of him so he can't deserve an article" is entirely too prevalent and needs to be addressed before we turn into just a list of people *everybody* knows about already. -- Phil [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
Straw man. Not the prevalent idea at VfD at all, but then, it seems to be common argument of the radical inclusionist that things like [[List of pizza parlors in New York City]] is somehow an encylopedia article. It has nothing to do with "I've never heard of him" and everything to do with "He doesn't merit an article."
RickK
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