QUOTE(Moulton @ Fri 30th April 2010, 8:33pm)
NPR is a niche news group that has a tiny audience. It is not representative of US media.
QUOTE(Apathetic @ Fri 30th April 2010, 8:58pm)
QUOTE(Ottava @ Fri 30th April 2010, 4:26pm)
Then it could deserve a wonderful one line mention of it on the page about the election and be done with it.
But not a useful navigational redirect from the name the media has given to it (which has already generated
over 36,500 ghits) ?
Google hits get blogs and the rest. It is a bs term, as well as anything with "gate" behind it (besides Watergate, and then that kinda had to have it). It is a big "no one really cares".
QUOTE(Somey @ Fri 30th April 2010, 9:29pm)
Whether or not it's a non-story, imposing some sort of "delayed gratification" rule would be extremely beneficial for WP in terms of quality improvement, which is why they're not going to do it. (That, and the fact that they'd find it a difficult rule to enforce.)
Personally, I'd make it three months, though even a week would be better than nothing. The fact is, most people are actually very polite, and don't want to "mess with" someone else's work, much less fight over it - even if that work is a paragraph written in the midst of a confusing media circus, based on scant or even false information. The mess is created up front, and then someone always has to clean it up. But hey, as long as a few people register new accounts to get their digs in and (in the process) pump up those monthly recruitment numbers, it's all good, eh?
Hell, 48 hours would be enough to cool off some of the people who need to "post it now". It would definitely help when posting about people's deaths beyond stating the date.
I think an easy way to fix one of Wiki's BLP problems is to deny notability unless something has been published by a legitimate critical publisher. Putting the minimum quite low (say, one publication by a legitimate critical publisher), that would destroy everything that is solely found in newspapers. Books are published quite quickly on political matters (I'd say, 6 month delay). Someone like Obama would have one book published early on which would allow the rest. But spin offs would be denied unless they had a book devoting something to it.
But the word "notability" on Wiki has nothing to do with the dictionary definition, so I doubt that will ever happen.