And I thought it was just the Baader, Browder, Bauer phenomenon... Fred Bauder
> On 8 March 2014 18:04, Brian J Mingus <[email protected]> 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 >> book) is analogous to onomatopoeia in that both represent the thing >> they are >> describing in some way - this is also similar to homoiconicity. It's a >> perfect name - much better than "frequency illusion" - and a >> substantial >> number of people now know it by this name, in part due to its >> longstanding >> and interesting history of existence on Wikipedia, which has advertised >> it >> to hundreds of thousands of people and generated tens of thousands of >> websites which use it by that name. >> The article should clearly stay! > > > Now you just need sources to this effect. There's always writing them ... > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
