[WikiEN-l] Pakistani politicians and systemic bias

[Ray Saintonge]

Matthew Brown wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2007 3:22 AM, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
>   
>> We obviously see it differently; I looked at the size of the
>> country, saw it was a smaller population than my home town,
>> contextualised it with the papers in my home town, and went from
>> there.  The entire circulation of that paper would not even half
>> fill the football ground in my home town.
>>     
> True, but - I'm not sure that this is always a valid approach.
> Notability doesn't always scale with population like that.
> (Especially in a historical sense, when the entire population of
> nations might not have fit in a decent-sized modern football ground,
> way back when)
>   
I can appreciate the insignificance of Guy's hometown.  When it chooses 
to declare independence maybe it will be as important as Surinam.
>> I really must leave webcomics alone.  I think that 99% of them are
>> not in the least bit notable, and others think that 99% of them are
>> of paramount importance.  This is never going to make for a relaxing
>> life.  Ah well.
>>     
>
> Webcomics at least have the useful property of being largely harmless
> if excessively covered within Wikipedia.  Really, I suspect, it's way
> too recent a phenomenon to be truly able to give them proper context.
> However, if it's an area that becomes crufty, only webcomics nuts
> probably will notice or care. Over-representation is one of the lesser
> issues in our project, I feel.
>   
I'm sure that the webcomic nuts are encouraged by the opposition.

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