[Wikipedia-l] Non-notability "abuse"

[Matthew Brown]

On 9/18/07, Ronald Chmara <ron at opus1.com> wrote:
> Something I'm curious about, does the concept of "encyclopedia" mean
> mean things in many cultures, where in some, a blogger or hotel or
> shopping mall is information to be preserved for hundreds of years?

I think the original poster's point was that similar in, say, New York
would not be deleted in en.wikipedia.  We are not necessarily bound by
the limits of previous print encyclopedias.

-Matt