On 7/5/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Is every random spammer who hits 'edit' automatically a member of the 'community'?
Why would we give automatic suffrage to folks who have not yet demonstrated a significant degree of support or even understanding of the goals of the project?
Why do I ask? Going down the VFD page it would appear that a large number, if not a majority, of the 'keep' voters have less than 50 article edits. Some have no article edits at all.
Almost any form of edit count or tenure weighing would leave this a clear consensus for delete.
Evidences?
in any case your current account doesn't appear to have any edits pre 21 March 2005
Even more importantly, the arguments on the delete side are far more compelling in my view: for example, Thatcher131's observation that "eon8 gets one hit on Google News and one hit on Lexis/Nexis; both are blog-related hits based solely on the claims of the website itself".
Outdated.
With that in mind, how can you claim that the article isn't an attempt to spread an idea as opposed to merely documenting already popular idea?
because all the pop culture centres of the internet have already been hit.