On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:57 AM, George Herbert > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Charles Matthews >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> David Gerard wrote: >>>> http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol20/?pg=16 >>>> >>> Argument intelligent enough, use of "notable" is off-base though since >>> for us notability is an attribute of topics. >> >> He's describing WP for an external audience. Not his fault that we >> have internal jargon which is not entirely aligned with outside >> standard english. > > Actually, Charles was probably referring to these sentences: > > "...the debate over which sources are notable..." > > "...since there's consensus that the [New York] Times is a notable source..." > > Doctorow (the author of the article) should have said *reliable* > sources, not notable sources.
Ah, missed that. I sit corrected. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
