[WikiEN-l] NewYorkBrad leaving

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Jun 30 17:54:58 UTC 2008


David Gerard wrote:
> 2008/6/30 Angela Anuszewski:
>   
>>> What happened to the Daniel Brandt article?  Is he not notable?
>>>       
>> If I never subscribed to this mailing list, I would have never heard of
>> him.  :)
>>     
> Am I one of the few people who had heard of him? He was that
> anti-Google crank who ascribed his low search ranking to malice on
> their part. Of course, since then he's worked extremely hard to make
> himself as famous as possible, using Wikipedia to this purpose.

Angela does make a valid point.  The biggest factor contributing to DB's 
notability has been the persistent debate over his notability.  Maybe 
there's a lesson in that somewhere.

Ec



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