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Deleted: What's Not Up To Snuff For Wikipedia
So writes Noam Cohen in the article "Giving The Heave-Ho In an Online Who's Who," published Sunday in The New York Times. "Each day dozens of new Wikipedia articles about people--and about historical figures, fictional creatures, obscure concepts, run-of-the-mill organizations and even shopping centers--are deleted, having been deemed sufficiently unnotable or otherwise unworthy of being listed," Cohen writes. To illustrate, Cohen looks at the give and take over articles relating to a list of songs using cowbells, the cartoon character Garfield's teddy bear Pooky, a relatively unknown javelin thrower Chuck Greene, the pro-American monarchist The Constantian Society, and congressional candidate Dianne Farrell, a Connecticut Democrat. The Times article provides a concise look at the open source model in action. « A Different Kind Of Feature Creep Hits Vista Performance | Main | Daily Podcast For Monday, Oct. 9 » |
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