Comment by thaumasiotes
9 days ago
Ok, but what are you saying in "there isn't enough work anymore"? What is "work"? How much is there? Enough for what?
9 days ago
Ok, but what are you saying in "there isn't enough work anymore"? What is "work"? How much is there? Enough for what?
Most articles on notable AND interesting subjects have already been written and are of a high quality.
"notability" means there are peer-reviewed/editorially controlled articles on the topic.
So, if I wanted to write an article on Gas Town, I couldn't. It got a lot of technical blogs and Arxiv preprints written about it by experts, but it won't be notable.
This gets at one of the biggest flaws in Wikipedia, IMO. I think the notability standard is way too strict and gives way too much weight to main stream media sources as the blessed arbiters of what is notable.
The alternative is that the Daily Stormer is usable as a source.
There has to be some mechanism of determining what should and shouldn't be usable as a source.
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