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A comment on The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History. Parent comment

Re:The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History by tptacek on Thursday December 13, 2012 @12:53AM (#4914464)
Subjects are notable by dint of being written about in reliable sources, which is something you can say about any Buffy episode and can't say about a cocktail that some guy in Camden made up one weekend and wrote about on Wikipedia as a joke.
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Re:The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History by Turing_Machine on Thursday December 13, 2012 @05:08AM (#4915135)
'The "notability" argument from Wikipedia Deletionists is fascinating because it basically outsources judgements of significance to major media conglomerates.' -- opendna
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Re:The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History by Semiapies on Thursday December 13, 2012 @05:15PM (#4918436)
You're answering a criticism of Wikipedia's standards by appealing to Wikipedia's standards. Further, you're certainly aware of your painfully obvious cherry-picking.
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