[WikiEN-l] Who was saying quantity vs quality?

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/8/2008 2:10:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,  
bryan.derksen at shaw.ca writes:

Or  alternately, that articles on pop culture subjects more frequently 
have  people gunning for their deletion, and lack of references is an 
easy way  to try accomplishing that. Few people are going to challenge an 
article on  a 19th century poet.>>


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You'd be surprised.  Typically pop culture subjects don't fail from a  lack 
of references.  Although at first people might try to use fan sites or  other 
poor web sites, typically you can find any number of newspaper articles  about 
some pop culture item.
 
I have had articles on older subjects challenged based on not being to find  
much in Google.  One in particular which springs to mind dealt with a  
teacher/doctor who was important in the history of Seattle.  This  particular person 
had an elementary school named *for* him and yet was  challenged on notability 
grounds.  IIRC the article actually went through  an AfD.
 
Which begs the question of whether we need to make it clear that "If  someone 
has a large structure named FOR them, then obviously they are *notable*  no 
matter what you can or can't find in Google."
 
Google is heavily weighted toward the last ten years, Google Books will  
change that, but only '''very'''' gradually.
Will Johnson
 
 



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