On 8 March 2014 18:04, Brian J Mingus <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote:
> The reason the name stuck is that "Baader-Meinhof" is a weird name, and one > would not expect to see it multiple times independently in short succession. > Hence the name "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon" (which is also the name of a > book) is analogous to onomatopoeia in that both represent the thing they are > describing in some way - this is also similar to homoiconicity. It's a > perfect name - much better than "frequency illusion" - and a substantial > number of people now know it by this name, in part due to its longstanding > and interesting history of existence on Wikipedia, which has advertised it > to hundreds of thousands of people and generated tens of thousands of > websites which use it by that name. > The article should clearly stay! Now you just need sources to this effect. There's always writing them ... - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
