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| + | '''Citation analysis''' is the examination of the frequency, patterns, and graphs of [[citation]]s in [[article (publishing)|article]]s and books. | ||
| - | Notability of a subject determines which articles will be included or not at Wikipedia. In his book, ''[[The Wikipedia Revolution]]: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia'', [[Andrew Lih]] writes that notability is at the center of the debate as to what the world's greatest encyclopedia should be - | + | ==See also== |
| + | *[[Citation graph]] | ||
| + | *[[Citation impact]] | ||
| + | *[[Citation index]] | ||
| + | *[[Google economy]] | ||
| + | *[[Journal ranking]] | ||
| - | :''"One faction believes Wikipedia should contain pretty much anything, as long as it’s factual and verifiable.... On the other side of the debate are the ‘deletionists’, although this somewhat unfairly characterizes their view in a destructive way. Some prefer the word ‘exclusionists’. This camp believes it is important to strictly determine not only whether something is factual, but whether it is notable, whether it is worthy of being included in the pantheon of human knowledge..... At the center of the debate is notability, which is where inclusionists and deletionists have their skirmishes. | ||
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| - | Emily Artinian compares this passage with [[Borges]]' ''[[The Library of Babel]]''. | ||
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| - | Persons wanting to delete an article on the grounds of non-notability are called [[deletionism|deletionists]]. Those not wanting to delete the article are called [[meta:inclusionism|inclusionists]]. | ||
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| - | A team of [[computer scientist]]s at [[MIT]] and [[Rutgers University]] has used notability at Wikipedia to create a measure of hierarchy in a directed [[online social network]]. | ||
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| - | The number of hits from a search engine has been proposed as a measure of notability; Wikipedia does not recommend the use of Google's results. | ||
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| - | The number of [[citation]]s has been proposed as a measure of notability of a publication or author; the field of study is called [[citation analysis]]. | ||
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| - | Notability may be considered to be [[absolute|absolute]]ly [[Objectivity (philosophy)|objective]], e.g., inherently as the [[big bang]]; [[relativism|relatively]] objectively determinable using a [[Convention (norm)|convention]]al definition, which is [[subjectivity|subjectively]] determined by [[consensus]], e.g., an online encyclopedia consensus to consider all towns as being notable, no matter how small; or [[subjective experience|subjective]], such as a notably emotional day for an individual. | ||
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| - | == Using fallacious reasoning to confer notability== | ||
| - | [[Name dropping]] and [[argument by authority]] are examples of attempts to confer notability by associating the name of something notable with something else in an attempt to establish notability of that thing. | ||
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| - | Conferring notability is related to [[transitive relation|transitivity]] and the [[syllogism]]. If all A's are notable, and x is an A, then x is notable is true by syllogism, but if A is notable, and x is an element of A, then x is not necessarily notable. If x is more notable than y, and y is more notable than z, then x is more notable than z, but if person x considers A to be notable, and A is a subset of B, then x does not necessarily consider B to be notable; an example of an [[intentional context]] in the [[paradox of the name relation]]. | ||
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