On Dec 31, 2007 8:41 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 31/12/2007, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/31/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Remember that "notability" is a Wikipedia jargon word back-formed from the use of "non-notable" on AFD to mean "I've never heard of it."
Really?
Really. "Non-notable" was VFD speak for "I don't like it" or "I've never heard of it."
More specifically, it came about during a time when some administrators were discussing not "counting" "votes" which failed to explain themselves. A good theory if you want VFD to not be a vote, but it had the unintended consequence of causing people to make up a meaningless explanation. "Delete. Not notable." I seem to remember retaliating against this a bit with quite a few "Keep. Notable." "votes".