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It's amusing to see that McMillen's entry is now tagged with "may not meet notability guidelines." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McMillen http://en.wikipe
by GCA10 12y ago
It's amusing to see that McMillen's entry is now tagged with "may not meet notability guidelines." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McMillen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McMillen
I suspect that this belated effort to quiet everything down will just make for an even noisier and messier debate.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoNot really. Looking at its Articles for Deletion page, it seems like most of the citations were actually junk. This is just like how hoax articles have stuck around: people are suspicious of citation-free pages, but pages with poor citations are rarely checked. By the sounds of things, this article didn't actually pass Wikipedia's notability test - it's just that nobody put it to that test by nominating it for deletion (i.e. nobody thought it was suspicious). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Andrew_McMillen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
- GCA10 12y agoWe're both right, TazeTSchnitzel. I agree with you 100% about junky citations and the article's inability to meet true notability standards. But now that it's become a publicized article, various pranksters and Wikipedia critics aren't likely to let it disappear quietly.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoAh, I see your point. Yeah, some people might want to keep it, I hadn't considered that.