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pellatoday at 10:18 AM2 repliesview on HN

The new rule of notability: if it’s no longer in Google’s index, it basically doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability criteria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion...

"From a Google search, I wasn’t able to find" appears multiple times on that page alone.


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joramstoday at 10:35 AM

The relevant part is before that:

> This article is exclusively sourced on primary sources.

The Google search is the nominator looking for an alternative source that could make it notable, something earlier editors failed to establish.

snvzztoday at 11:42 AM

In short, Google decides what stays in Wikipedia.

Neat. Not.

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