[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia broken

[Steve Bennett]

On 4/7/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo at 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