On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 04:25:19PM -0800, Ed Keith wrote: > I think someone is on a crusade to get everything but his or her pet > subject removed from Wikipedia. Half the pages I've visited in the > last moth have been marked for deletion. If they all go there will not > be much left.
Not quite: *many* people are on a crusade to delete anything even slightly obscure from Wikipedia. Check through the "articles for deletion" queue some time, I guarantee you'll find plenty that shouldn't be deleted in there (and plenty of rules-lawyers willing to defend that deletion long past the point where you've given up the will to live). To the present point, note that Wikipedia rules determine notability by reference to "independent, reliable, published sources". So newspapers, magazines and so on count, but blogs don't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources Yes, it's fricking 2011 and these guidelines are completely outdated; if anyone feels like running for Wikimedia President, changing the rules and banning all the deletionists then you'd have my full support. But back to Factor's article: unless some computing magazine or other has covered Factor, our best bet might be to cite scholarly journal articles. ISTR there are a few of these? Though again, "a review article, monograph, or textbook is better than a primary research paper. When relying on primary sources, extreme caution is advised". Miles -- The Tube is Civilization! -- Tycho Brahe, "Penny Arcade" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
