> Hi all, > > I'm not sure about the history of this article, but it it was recently > brought to my attention via Facebook. > > My take on this article is that it is an abuse of Wikipedia's notability > guidelines. The article goes out of its way to cite lots of sources, but > I > do not believe that being mentioned in the mainstream media is both a > necessary and sufficient condition for notability. In this particular > case > it sounds like someone with a lot of name recognition used that name > recognition to get media attention for their smear campaign. This media > attention was then used to justify a Wikipedia article. This is an > excellent > reductio ad absurdum case that brings a boundary condition of our > notability > guidelines to light. It is, quite frankly, manufactured notability and > IMO > it does deserve an article. > > When you Google for Santorum's last name this Wikipedia article is the > second result. This means that people who are looking for legitimate > information about him are not going to find it right away - instead we > are > going to feed them information about a biased smear campaign rather than > the > former Senators BLP. > > Please discuss. > > -- > Brian Mingus > Graduate student > Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab > University of Colorado at Boulder
Yeh, it's nuts. I thought it was a hoax at first. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
