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

[White Cat]

Headline on CNN right now is "Poll: War support at new low" do we have an
article of this poll? We write articles on events unless they are notable
enough for the entire year rather than day.

A notable event would be Jimbo deciding to shut down the site (wikipedia)
for example which would IMHO only be notable enough to be mentioned on the
article on [[Wikipedia]]. Probably the coverage would be one or two lines,
max a paragraph. Not a full article, that can be on wikinews (maybe). Essjay
incident however isn't even worth a single line mention on article
namespace.

I also think that Essjay article is in violation of the spirit of "right to
vanish". I do not particularly ''like'' Essjay but this mocking of him even
bothers me. I ask myself this question: "will I be mistreated like him if
circumstances are right?"

    - White Cat


On 6/27/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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