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

The Mangoe the.mangoe at gmail.com
Sat Jun 30 21:10:27 UTC 2007


On 6/30/07, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/30/07, The Mangoe <the.mangoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is incontrovertibly a reliable source for the continuing notability
> > of the incident.
> I do not think thats an accurate assessment. Just because something is
> covered, doesn't make it notable. Just as something not covered on media is
> not non-notable.

You imply, in saying this, that media coverage is irrelevant to
notability. I say that in general media coverage IS the "noting" that
makes notability. That it is noted is prima facie evidence of
notability.



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