I find it interesting how wikipedia's notability guidelines work for programming related stuff Higher Order Perl was up for deletion, saved by reviews. There are mentions/reviews of the book in blogs that get more readers than every cited source combined, but blogs don't count.
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I used to work at a company that loved PR blitzes, they effectively had a machine to get submarine articles about people and projects in major publications. Anyone could pull the lever and articles would come out. Those citations count, but blogs don't.
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I get why wikipedia has standards that prefer form ("published in a book, magazine, newspaper, etc." vs. "just a personal blog") over function (is the content actually credible or correct), but it results in funny inclusion discussions. See alsohttps://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1098114609368743936 …
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See also,
@gwern's Wikipedia and Dark Side Editing: ignoring the spirit of the law and punctiliously following the letter of the law in order to obey the spirit of what the law arguably should've beenhttps://www.gwern.net/Wikipedia-and-Dark-Side-Editing …Show this thread - End of conversation
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“space on wikipedia”; neither does that comment.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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