Wikipedia's Notability Requirements And The Slash

Re:Wikipedia's Notability Requirements And The Slash by thristian on Monday February 14, 2011 @02:10AM (#2215746)

Zed Shaw's personal hell: being given a laptop with an internet connection, a browser pointed at Wikipedia, and being asked to complete the article List of things which do not exist.

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Re:Wikipedia's Notability Requirements And The Slash by zedshaw on Monday February 14, 2011 @03:23AM (#2215924)

Uh, that makes no sense.

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Re:Wikipedia's Notability Requirements And The Slash by jacques_chester on Monday February 14, 2011 @03:08AM (#2215885)

He could call it "List of things registered in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"

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Re:Wikipedia's Notability Requirements And The Slash by mcantor on Monday February 14, 2011 @11:05AM (#2217227)

Would the list contain itself?

Ohhh. Damn you, Bert Russell!

(I kill me.)

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Re:Wikipedia's Notability Requirements And The Slash by othermaciej on Monday February 14, 2011 @05:46AM (#2216258)

How about "List of articles which do not mention themselves"?

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Re:Wikipedia's Notability Requirements And The Slash by nickzoic on Monday February 14, 2011 @04:33PM (#2218779)

List of Articles not listed in a List of Articles.

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Re:Wikipedia's Notability Requirements And The Slash by mkramlich on Monday February 14, 2011 @03:57AM (#2216002)

Well, they would have to be very notable things that do not exist. (My next line wants very much to be a joke about God but I'll just leave that up to your individual imaginations.)

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