[WikiEN-l] Thousands of *awful* articles on websites

[The Cunctator]

On 1/3/07, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>
wrote:
>
> Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote
>
> > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:20, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.comwrote:
> > >
> > > No, since when has attaching 'Nazi' to something been an acceptable
> way to
> > > argue? Don't quote Seinfeld to me. I'm not American, I don't watch it.
> That
> > > goes also for others on the list. You 'come on'. Stop being an
> ethnocentric
> > > jerk.
> >
> > Oh, grow up.
> >
> > It was funny.  And appropriate.
> >
> > If you're that thin-skinned that you find it upsetting, then you DESERVE
> to be
> > upset.
>
> Actually, it wasn't funny. It wasn't even a joke, as far as I can see. It
> wss intended to re-open the old deletionist-inclusionist schism.


Schism? Wow. I didn't realize we were getting to religious levels here.
Bogdan's post was a bit, I felt, overblown about the inclusion of webcomics,
websites, and other web content in Wikipedia.


The Cunctator, having been a face of some eminence on enWP in the early
> days, pops up here again.


Well, thank you. I'm not sure "eminence" is a word anyone would ever use to
describe my face, though.

Welcome back, I say;


I didn't realize I had left.


> but please don't assume we're in the same timewarp as you.


Just a jump to the left....[1]


Matters such as reliable sourcing for articles are not now regarded as
> optional: we are more sensitive on the issue. Someone who posts here on the
> topic of unsourced articles about websites might expect a reasoned argument,
> in line with the current policies, rather than that.


The topic wasn't unsourced articles about websites, if I remember correctly.
Bogdan's complaint is primarily one of notability, I believe. There's also
been quite a reasonable discussion about the definition of an acceptable
source.

Furthermore Godwin's Law applies: call someone a Nazi, you LOSE the
> argument.


That's not Godwin's Law.

--tc

[1] Obligatory ethnocentric American pop-cultural reference.