[WikiEN-l] I'm disappointed in Wikipedia.

[michael west]

Dunno i actually struck 251 - myspace -blog -answers. neologism have a
frame of 40,000 i think. but if the guy can find 50 notable newspapers
(I coundn't) would be cool. I'd pass his on the grounds that it could
be merged. (Wikipedia is not a place for neologism but I think its so
boom it works.)

On 09/06/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Jun 9, 2007, at 9:52 AM, John Lee wrote:
>
> > As I anticipated, the only reason the article was deleted was a
> > lack of
> > sources. That's perfectly fine.
> >
> > What's not perfectly fine is how lazy people are when it comes to
> > looking
> > for sources. I often see quotations tagged with {{fact}} that have
> > sources
> > readily available on Google (I just select a random phrase from the
> > quote,
> > plug it in, and the search results nearly always yield something
> > useful).
> >
> > Likewise, http://www.google.com/search?q=Glurge yields more than
> > enough
> > sources on the phrase's etymology (though that's more for
> > Wiktionary) and
> > background. Is it really that hard to Google something?
>
> Though in this case I have trouble finding many sources that meet
> stringent standards of reliability. 644 unique appearances on Google,
> though.
>
> For me, this points to another problem with stringent standards of
> reliability. Yeah, we only have 644 independent sources on Google,
> none of which may be the most reliable of things. But we're dealing
> here with a neologism, and any source that uses the word, regardless
> of some ontological notion of reliability, is giving us significant
> information. Of course, the most stringent NOR monkeys will still cry
> foul over this.
>
> This is, for me, the really disheartening thing about the deletion
> debate. If people had approached the subject as reasonable, thinking
> editors there would be a really interesting discussion of how best to
> source this article. But people approach it as robots and we get
> "Delete, neologism."
>
> -Phil
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