[email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 4/27/2009 11:27:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > >> "Yes, the sources we have are unlikely to be wrong about the >> architectural merits, and quite possibly the building will be >> mentioned in some other local history books - it is just that this >> won't google up." >> >> Doc's saying that people delete based on Google results.>> > > --------------- > > Google Books changes everything. > If they delete based on Google and fail to search Google Books for items of > historical note then they are acting without a duty of actual research. > > I'm not saying that people should delete based on Google results in the > first place. In fact I am the one who put that note on historical subjects > into the policy in the first place a few years back. Subjects who are not > necessarily currently talked-up might have been quite the popular rage back > in > 1920 or 1920 or 1420, and should not be deleted based on current Google > searches. > > With Google Books we can now allow the Chair Potato to see that for > themselves. > > Will Johnson > >
Google books is fine, as is google itself. Neither is a substitute for common sense. I'll take the subjectivity of human common sense over the arithmetic of search engines any day. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
