[WikiEN-l] Scott McCloud on Wikipedia

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Feb 25 07:47:28 UTC 2007


William Pietri wrote:

>Philip Sandifer wrote:
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>>See also Timothy Noah's recent article on Slate for this - it gives a  
>>good view of how notability guidelines look to the outside. In this  
>>case, it's how they look to the subject of the article, but I assure  
>>you - they look similar to people who are familiar with the subject.  
>>In short, they appear a Kafka-esque absurdity.
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>For those wondering, the article is here:
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>http://www.slate.com/id/2160222/
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Thanks for the link.  Noah does a good job showing what a joke the 
notability criterion has become.

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