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I do find this mildly interesting and can see how it's interesting enough to make the HN front page. But how is this 'culturally relevant' enough to make a Wik
by jagged-chisel 7y ago
I do find this mildly interesting and can see how it's interesting enough to make the HN front page.
But how is this 'culturally relevant' enough to make a Wikipedia page? That's an "I'm amused" question rather than an "I'm flabbergasted" question.
- ramenmeal 7y agoSeems like you answered your own question.
- jagged-chisel 7y agoCan you explain? Just because the HN crowd finds something interesting, that doesn't automatically qualify it for a wikipedia page.
- dpark 7y agoWikipedia’s bar for culturally relevant is wildly inconsistent. In this case, though, there are tons of external references to these names so it’s easy to establish “relevance” as guidelines dictate.
- walrus01 7y agoThere's almost certainly a large enough number of people googling "Contoso" to merit a wikipedia page on its own. Sort of a microsoft-specific (active directory training material, etc) version of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com
- munchbunny 7y agoThe page shows up as the top entry if you Google "Contoso". The second is Microsoft's own explanation of what Contoso is. I think that's the perfect explanation if you're trying to figure out what "Contoso" is in all of the random .NET and MS related examples are.
- majos 7y agoPer the flag at the top of the Wikipedia page, somebody agrees with you: > The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. (July 2018) As a relative outsider to the editing process who nonetheless reads a lot of Wikipedia, "notability" seems to be unevenly judged across domains.
- peterwwillis 7y agoYou can search for the companies online and find interesting things, like this enterprise database schema for AdventureWorks Cycles: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4385 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=438...