On 13 June 2011 14:41, TimSC <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I ask any interested parties and Richard: please respond with a > definition of what constitutes "news" and/or some reasoning that it is "one > person's hobbyhorse", otherwise I will revert you back. Also if you want to > raise awareness of the poll, I would appreciate some support here! ;) It was put very succinctly by somebody earlier - paraphrasing, you know something is news if it's important enough that somebody other than the person who did it thinks it's news. In a similar vein, Wikipedia takes a dim view of people writing an article about themselves. We all have diary pages to publicise our OSM deeds that we think people care about. If they actually do, somebody else will post it as news. Dermot -- -------------------------------------- Igaühel on siin oma laul ja ma oma ei leiagi üles _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
