[WikiEN-l] Attack Site Wars, Episode VII... The Return of the Essjay

[Fred Bauder]

I am so tempted to write the article [[calibrated diet plate]].

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jimmy Wales [mailto:jwales at wikia.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 04:12 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Attack Site Wars,	Episode VII... The Return of the Essjay
>
>
>On Jun 25, 2007, at 8:30 PM, George Herbert wrote:
>> On 6/25/07, Anirudh <anirudhsbh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1) An incident which has coverage (in some cases front-page) in most
>> major US newspapers and newsmagazines rises to the level of notability
>> under any rational interpretation of the word.
>
>In many cases, yes. But actually in most cases, no.
>
>Here's a very big routine news story today:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6238740.stm
>
>Widely covered:
>http://news.google.com/news?tab=wn&client=firefox- 
>a&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US% 
>3Aofficial&ncl=1117582711&hl=en
>
>But I think we can all say that this study does not deserve an 
>encyclopedia article. It's just a routine "filler" news story.
>
>I think if you survey the front page of CNN or BBC or the New York 
>Times each day, you will find that the vast majority of news stories 
>are not about things which are encyclopedic in nature, and we end up 
>not writing about most of them.
>
>This may or may not have relevance in the EssJay notability debate, 
>but just saying "it was in a lot of newspapers" doesn't really help 
>settle the issue.
>
>--Jimbo
>
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