On 15/01/2011, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > To take a specific example, I very occasionally come across names of > people or topics where it is next-to-impossible to find out anything > meaningful about them because the name is identical to that of someone > else. Sometimes this is companies that name themselves after something > well-known and any search is swamped by hits to that well-known > namesake. Other times, it is someone more famous swamping a relatively > obscure person - a recent example I found here is the physicist Otto > Klemperer. Despite having the name and profession, it is remarkably > difficult to find information about the physicist as opposed to the > composer. If I had a birth year, it would be much easier, of course.
That's the primary advantage of an encyclopedia of course. It doesn't rely much on the vagaries of English. > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
