[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's destiny

[Peter Mackay]

> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Lih
> Sent: Friday, 24 February 2006 19:37
> To: English Wikipedia
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's destiny
> 
> On 2/24/06, Peter Mackay <peter.mackay at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > > From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> > > [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Delirium
> > >
> > > Stan Shebs wrote:
> > >
> > > >I only see 92,000, while "Stan Shebs" gets 115,000. So how
> > > is it that
> > > >he's notable enough to have an article and I'm not? I even
> > > have actual
> > > >accomplishments to describe, albeit no bizarre physical 
> features to 
> > > >snicker at (or at least I haven't noticed any pointing and
> > > giggling :-)
> > > >).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > In any case, it's in the multiple tens of thousands, so I 
> think we 
> > > can agree that the original Wikipedia article writer 
> didn't dig up 
> > > Brian Peppers from the obscurity of the Ohio sex 
> offenders registry.
> >
> > Nevertheless, that's the only source we have. Everything 
> else merely 
> > references it or comments on it.
> >
> > > As for why you don't have an article, I would've thought that is 
> > > fairly obvious.  Unless you're famous in some area I don't know 
> > > about, it would seem not very many people have commented publicly 
> > > about you.
> >
> > 115 000 hits, Mark. That's more than the chap with the face.
> >
> > > If they have, or if you do something that causes a few 
> thousands of 
> > > people to write about you, then I should think you ought 
> to have a 
> > > Wikipedia article.
> >
> > 115 000 hits, Mark. That's more than the chap with the 
> face. Start writing.
> 
> 
> Results 1 - 10 of about 161,000 for "brian peppers". (0.05 seconds)
> 
> Results 1 - 10 of about 154,000 for "Stan Shebs". (0.03 seconds)
> 
> Let's cut the ridiculousness of this Google testing track.

I agree. We don't need any Google hits at all if a subject is truly worth
inclusion, and we might get millions for something that's never going to
make it in.

Results 1 - 10 of about 95,700 for "Brian Peppers". (0.31 seconds)

Results 1 - 10 of about 115,000 for "Stan Shebs". (0.18 seconds)

Seems to vary to a remarkable degree. For what that's worth. As I noted
earlier, we're not going to check every one of those hits.

Peter (Skyring)