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 <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > 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 > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
