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Re:Wikipedia is up (2001) by notahacker on Sunday May 09, 2021 @01:18PM (#27097742)
The real fun is on the marginal articles: the politicians so obscure that nobody bothers to edit war over them so that most of the article is written either by their party PR team or somebody with an axe to grind against them (or in the case of one obscure British MP, an editor that was apparently their partner!). The academic theories that are so fringe nobody's even really critiqued them as fringe, and yet because they just about pass notability they get the same prominence as entire schools of academic thought on list pages. The pages where someone makes a joke edit and it doesn't get removed ten minutes later.
Re:Wikipedia is up (2001) by ghaff on Sunday May 09, 2021 @01:31PM (#27097844)
Notability is one of the funny things on Wikipedia that doesn't have a great solution given that many people are notable in some community (physical or professional). You can make a case for most of the following being notable: pretty much any elected politician even if they're some county registrar of wills, journalists who may have thousands of bylines, tenured professors with lots of papers. Yet, many of these won't have a lot written about them especially in print publications which can run afoul of verifiability requirements beyond a statement about things that they've done.