Do you really need to put wikidata into EVERY discussion? I think your comment is RIDICULOUS. At least I HOPE it is. I really hope that when a subject's notability is discussed, it is discussed based on INDEPENDENT sources, not on "oh, the guy has been putting this info all over Wikimedia, then it's probably important."
André On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > One way to raise the profile of this magazine is to make sure that it is > well connected in Wikidata. I connected it to its founder, made it a > magazine and noted when it was founded. Many more things can be added. It > is certainly a way to raise available information on the magazine. It is > one way to establish information on the subject. > > I added some information to its founder and in this way I added surrounding > information. The point is very much that never mind the English Wikipedia > information, it should not be left to the vagaries of its notability > criteria. Wikidata is much more about data and interrelating data. As such > the Goa Today is easily notable. > > <grin> there is more that can be done </grin> > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 12 December 2014 at 17:31, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या > *فريدريك نورونيا <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This debate is relevant to us, because we have been discussing lit fests, >> the profile of writers being invited/privileged etc... Not only on the >> basis of content, but also on the basis of age, looks, etc [ >> http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/mar/28/books.booksnews] >> >> Sometime in 2013, I started a Wikipedia page on *Goa Today*. As everyone >> reading this knows, this is Goa's oldest monthly, started way back in the >> 1960s, and has played an influential role in the literary life of the >> State. The discussions earlier today between Ben and Peter Nazareth only >> underline this point. And this is truth both when it was owned by Lambert >> Mascarenhas (jointly, if not mistaken, with Printwell owner FD Dantas, the >> father of our late much-respected journo colleague Norman Dantas; and >> ex-Speaker Machado) and also when owned by the Salgaocars. >> >> As most would know, *Goa Today *has a significant expat audience, but >> hasn't been very active with its own web presence online. The logic >> probably being that if they had a website, people would prefer to read >> their magazine online and not subscribe to it. I know of a number of expats >> who subscribe to the monthly and read it eagerly each month. >> >> What happens is that its lack of online visibility today gets translated >> (almost) into non-notability: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Goa_Today >> >> See the debate above, which is telling! I've earlier disagreed with >> Wikipedians and pointed out that as long as their definition of notability >> is based on someone's (or some institution's) web presence, in English... >> this is going to be an unfair world for perhaps the majority on the planet! >> FN >> -- >> P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter: @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha >> Latest from Goa,1556: >> http://goa1556.in/book/goa-in-sepia-tinted-postcards/ >> <http://goa1556.in> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikipedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l -- André Engels, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
