[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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