Or a notable artist? Google does, apparently. Or Google News more specifically.
I added a simple, straightforward page for myself, DJ lotu5, so that I could help expand the knowledge about mixed reality performance art in wikipedia [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_reality ] and the range of practices listed on the New Media Art [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_media_art ] page. Well, apparently you're not allowed to represent yourself on wikipedia at all, and so admitting that I had created the page became grounds for speedy deletion. At the objection of two people, the article was considered for deletion, not speedily or instantly deleted. Finally two editors came to "consensus" on my deletion because my name only has one hit for it in Google News. I think this does a great job of showing what kind of knowledge Wikipedia actually contains, knowledge gained from mass media sources. Apparently the editors of Wikipedia think that a number of hits from Google News is a good estimation of the value of an artist, or a person for that matter. For details, see: http://bang.calit2.net/tts/notable-life/ Apparently, I'm a case of a "non-notable autobiography". Thanks, Wikipedia. ciao, lotu5 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
