It's back again, after being deleted by Danny and protected by me (ZOMG! Wheel war!). Having seen Ombudsman among the list of contributors (actually restarted it after the last deletion) does not fill me with confidence...
Guy (JzG)
On 7/9/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
It's back again, after being deleted by Danny and protected by me (ZOMG! Wheel war!). Having seen Ombudsman among the list of contributors (actually restarted it after the last deletion) does not fill me with confidence...
Guy (JzG)
DRV undeleted it. The new AFD has some pretty strong anti sock measures. Lets finish this.
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 19:53:45 +0100, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
DRV undeleted it. The new AFD has some pretty strong anti sock measures. Lets finish this.
We'll see, I guess. My impression of the organisation's credibility is heavily coloured by Leyden's apparent overreaction to the first deletion.
Guy (JzG)
On 7/10/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
It's back again, after being deleted by Danny and protected by me (ZOMG! Wheel war!). Having seen Ombudsman among the list of contributors (actually restarted it after the last deletion) does not fill me with confidence...
I'm startled that Google News finds "Israel News Service" worthy of inclusion among its sources.
Regardless of my opinion that INS is a one-person screed site, it seems to give it a level of notability higher than other sites we've put in the "Keep" category.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=israel%20wikipedia&bt...
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
Andrew Lih wrote:
On 7/10/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
It's back again, after being deleted by Danny and protected by me (ZOMG! Wheel war!). Having seen Ombudsman among the list of contributors (actually restarted it after the last deletion) does not fill me with confidence...
I'm startled that Google News finds "Israel News Service" worthy of inclusion among its sources.
Not that I'd want to be rude to Jimbo, but Google News Alerts sends me notification when BOMIS pages get updated...not often, but enough for me to have noticed and chuckled...
HTH HAND
On 7/9/06, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
I'm startled that Google News finds "Israel News Service" worthy of inclusion among its sources.
I'm not so sure Google News has much of a bar to inclusion.
-Matt
Matt Brown wrote:
On 7/9/06, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
I'm startled that Google News finds "Israel News Service" worthy of inclusion among its sources.
I'm not so sure Google News has much of a bar to inclusion.
Their bar to inclusion is that they've spidered it.
No, Google News affiliates are all hand-picked by Google.
Although the other problem with their "bar" is that they have a large number of middle eastern and liberal employees who seem to think that Hezbollah's "news agency" and other racist "news" sources ought to be let in, while politically conservative news sources constantly get dropped.
A. Nony Mouse
On 7/12/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Matt Brown wrote:
On 7/9/06, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
I'm startled that Google News finds "Israel News Service" worthy of inclusion among its sources.
I'm not so sure Google News has much of a bar to inclusion.
Their bar to inclusion is that they've spidered it.
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A. Nony Mouse wrote:
No, Google News affiliates are all hand-picked by Google.
Although the other problem with their "bar" is that they have a large number of middle eastern and liberal employees who seem to think that Hezbollah's "news agency" and other racist "news" sources ought to be let in, while politically conservative news sources constantly get dropped.
I can tolerate the Israel News Agency and the large number of conservative sources that Google already uses, and I expect no less tolerance for differing points of view. Fabricating claims that these other views are "racist" does little to promote Wikilove.
Ec
On 7/13/06, A. Nony Mouse mousyme@gmail.com wrote:
No, Google News affiliates are all hand-picked by Google.
Not very carefully hand-picked. They have, in the past, spidered white supremacist propaganda and Holocaust denial.
Erik
Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Matt Brown wrote:
On 7/9/06, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
I'm startled that Google News finds "Israel News Service" worthy of inclusion among its sources.
I'm not so sure Google News has much of a bar to inclusion.
Their bar to inclusion is that they've spidered it.
It's slightly higher than that: they don't usually accept single-person news sources (read: blogs), and there are apparently some odd technical requirements as well. But yes, the bar is rather low. It seems the fact that some of the INA stories have bylines other than Leyden's is enough to qualify it as "not a blog" as far as Google News is concerned.