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A bizarre set of deficiencies
Jan. 27th, 2013 01:29 pmI get an RSS feed from the Reality-based Community. Today they wrote what is basically a re-tweet of this article from Nonprofit Quarterly, which is apparently a print journal of low significance (since it has no entry at Wikipedia).
The NPQ article is itself "an edited and abridged version of a memo, titled “Sweet Grapes,” to the board of the Public Welfare Foundation (PWF) from Thomas Scanlon on the occasion of his leaving the board after 40 years of service, including 12 years as board chair". Wikipedia has no entry for Mr. Thomas J. Scanlon, who founded a company called Benchmarks, Inc (that also has no Wikipedia entry).
The Public Welfare Foundation has no entry at Wikipedia (notice a pattern here?) even though there are 23 Wiki articles that have unlinked references to it, and even though it has an endowment of friggin' $450 million (and that ain't hay). Most bizarrely, it was founded by Charles Edward Marsh, who has no entry at Wikipedia even though he was a newspaper magnate, a close friend of President Franklin Roosevelt, and the inspiration for an old TV show called The Millionnaire.
I suppose I could put on my Wikieditor hat and write up these missing articles, but I suspect that would start a Wikifight. Surely, by this point, if there is any area of human endeavour that systematically has no Wikipedia entries, that is by intent?
The NPQ article is itself "an edited and abridged version of a memo, titled “Sweet Grapes,” to the board of the Public Welfare Foundation (PWF) from Thomas Scanlon on the occasion of his leaving the board after 40 years of service, including 12 years as board chair". Wikipedia has no entry for Mr. Thomas J. Scanlon, who founded a company called Benchmarks, Inc (that also has no Wikipedia entry).
The Public Welfare Foundation has no entry at Wikipedia (notice a pattern here?) even though there are 23 Wiki articles that have unlinked references to it, and even though it has an endowment of friggin' $450 million (and that ain't hay). Most bizarrely, it was founded by Charles Edward Marsh, who has no entry at Wikipedia even though he was a newspaper magnate, a close friend of President Franklin Roosevelt, and the inspiration for an old TV show called The Millionnaire.
I suppose I could put on my Wikieditor hat and write up these missing articles, but I suspect that would start a Wikifight. Surely, by this point, if there is any area of human endeavour that systematically has no Wikipedia entries, that is by intent?
