Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

2014-03-29 Thread Brian J Mingus
I don't see why this script shouldn't be permanently installed into Common.js assuming it works. On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:03 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 March 2014 01:02, Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk wrote: On 08/03/2014 09:20, David Gerard wrote: I

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

2014-03-28 Thread Brian J Mingus
*Most often requested* nonexistent articles per day (based on *149* days in year *2008*). ? On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_missed_articles On 08/03/2014 09:20, David Gerard wrote: I recall

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

2014-03-28 Thread David Gerard
On 28 March 2014 01:02, Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk wrote: On 08/03/2014 09:20, David Gerard wrote: I recall finding a list somewhere of article titles that got lots of hits but didn't have articles, but don't recall where. I may be misremembering of course. - d.

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Farmbrough
Like so much it needs updating. It is of historical interest, at the very least. For example I discovered the unusual [[List of big-bust models and performers]] which was deleted at the 6th AfD, partly on the basis that it was redundant to [[Category:Big-bust models and performers]]. This

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

2014-03-27 Thread Richard Farmbrough
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_missed_articles On 08/03/2014 09:20, David Gerard wrote: I recall finding a list somewhere of article titles that got lots of hits but didn't have articles, but don't recall where. I may be misremembering of course. - d.

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

2014-03-14 Thread geni
On 9 March 2014 10:46, Elias Friedman elipo...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't that be running afoul of the Citogenesis problem that Randall Munroe so succinctly pointed out in his xkcd web comic: https://xkcd.com/978/ No. If you are writing the sources for scratch rather than just copying

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

2014-03-13 Thread David Goodman
The most recent discussion is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon_(4th_nomination)- -the basic argument was lack of sufficiently reliable sources, and, looking at the deleted article, I can see that it was a reasonable basis for deletion. The

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

2014-03-09 Thread Brian J Mingus
The reason the name stuck is that Baader-Meinhof is a weird name, and one would not expect to see it multiple times independently in short succession. Hence the name Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (which is also the name of a book) is analogous to onomatopoeia in that both represent the thing they are

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

2014-03-09 Thread Elias Friedman
Wouldn't that be running afoul of the Citogenesis problem that Randall Munroe so succinctly pointed out in his xkcd web comic: https://xkcd.com/978/ Elias Max Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי elipo...@gmail.com יְהִי אוֹר On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:19 PM, David Gerard

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

2014-03-09 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 15:04:31 -0700, Brian J Mingus wrote: Wikipedia's policies are irrelevant: This phenomenon has entered the lexicon, and is now well known simply due to its existence in Wikipedia. I wouldn't say that Wikipedia's policies are irrelevant to anything regarding Wikipedia, as

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

2014-03-08 Thread David Gerard
On 5 March 2014 22:04, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: Wikipedia's policies are irrelevant: This phenomenon has entered the lexicon, and is now well known simply due to its existence in Wikipedia. Since the phenomenon didn't have a well known name, I've been telling people

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

2014-03-08 Thread David Gerard
On 8 March 2014 18:04, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: The reason the name stuck is that Baader-Meinhof is a weird name, and one would not expect to see it multiple times independently in short succession. Hence the name Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (which is also the name of a

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

2014-03-08 Thread Fred Bauder
And I thought it was just the Baader, Browder, Bauer phenomenon... Fred Bauder On 8 March 2014 18:04, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: The reason the name stuck is that Baader-Meinhof is a weird name, and one would not expect to see it multiple times independently in short