[WikiEN-l] The Economist on "notability"

[michael west]

On 06/03/2008, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10789354
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> Yes, (the Wikipedia jargon meaning of) notability is suitable material
> for a business- and economics-oriented news magazine.[*]
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> - d.
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> [*] it can call itself a "newspaper" all it likes


The article reads very similar to this one from The New York Review of Books
- http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131 , albeit from a hands on knowledge
of WP.