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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 207.112.29.2 (talk) at 04:06, 29 October 2003 (this unfriendliness could be creating a monster). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

someone wrote:

Do not ask for a short definition. Even after you read CFAI it is very likely that you will only begin to understand Friendliness.

That's fine, we'll give it a long definition but try to be concise. 207.112.29.2 02:28, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)

The reason I listed Friendliness Theory for deletion is because it has only 40 Google hits. This would strongly suggest the theory is not (yet) well known enough to be included. Wikipedia is not a place for primary research, so if this theory is new, then Wikipedia is not the place to publicise it. Sorry if you think six minutes was a little hasty, but I felt that the topic itself was not appropriate for Wikipedia, so any amount of editing to the article would not have changed my mind about that. Why not add your information to an existing page instead rather than trying to create a new article? That way, the fact it is new can be explaining in the context of a wider article and is less likely to be deleted. Angela 03:20, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC)


Hi, do not confuse me with the original poster of the article. I am merely an interested lay-person who happens to know the topic. It is not primary research that is being posted on wikipedia; and the theory is not a new one, see [1] for its mention in 1995. The criterion of 100-google matches is met by much discussion surrounding keywords relating to the topic and the author of the original work rather than having used the term itself. Since it is a specialized term, the 100-matches test should not apply and is in fact controversial if you believe Wikipedia:Google Test. 207.112.29.2 03:32, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Sorry for confusing you with the author of the article. Perhaps the fact that you both had Canadian IPs and edited the same articles led me to conclude you were one and the same. The Google test actually requires 1000 hits, not 100 and is widely accepted. Angela 03:39, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC)
Whoa! 1000 hits is not given as the minimum value in the current version of the Wikipedia:Google Test. I don't know where you came up with 1000, but it is certainly controverial. 1000 may be fine for a generic topic. This is a specialized topic. 207.112.29.2 03:58, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Hmmm. I'm sure it used to say 1000. Oh well, there's another rule that says the topic of the article has to have affected 1000 people. Do you think 1000 people are aware of this theory? Is there anything more than a stub that you can write about it that is verifiable? Angela 04:02, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC)
Hmmm! good questions; but unlikely to be answered in six minutes. 207.112.29.2 04:06, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
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