Is IMAO notable?
The debate rages on at Wikipedia, but I’m not sure what standard they are using for notable to say if I do or do not meet it. I tried looking up Wikipedia in the Wikipedia, but wasn’t enlightened on what the content of the Wikipedia should be limited to.
Anyway, this seems like an inefficient process with all this debating… especially considering that just anyone can come in and add things without even registering. Still, they are quite quick to delete references to Glenn Reynolds being called the “puppy blender” (even though it’s true) as soon as it appears. Maybe such a reference would better go on the entry for IMAO… if it’s deemed notable.
Now, one person on the debate said that blogs in general are not notable. That’s quite spurious. Certainly some blogs have had more influence on news and politics that the Wikipedia which itself was deemed notable enough for an entry. Then the question is, what blogs are notable? Of course the puppy blender is, but is the not so humble IMAO?
Anyway, I’d like to hear arguments for and against IMAO being notable, and, if notable, what specifically makes it notable. I know my readers probably won’t want to admit reading something un-notable, but maybe write some arguments against just for fun. Maybe later I’ll try using that info to write a more encyclopedic (i.e., not silly, like previous attempts) entry about my blog– with extra information only I am privy to.
So… what do you think?
UPDATE: I’m now decided on this topic. The Carrot Top movie is in Wikipedia (and they are requesting a more expanded article about it). If that’s the standard, my blog is certainly notable.
Frank, in all honesty, IMAO is run by a bunch of arrogant partisan nutjobs who post conspiracy theories and rumors as if they were actual facts and evidence. I stopped going there this week and just bought Encarta instead. I posted a fairly angry complaint about them and their policies in the talk section of “9/11 Conspiracy Theory” and then went out yesterday and bought Encarta. It tends to be somewhat soft now and then but at least it’s not written by left-wing maniacs. IMAO not making into Wikipedia should not, I think, be considered too great a loss.
“Frank, in all honesty, IMAO is run by a bunch of arrogant partisan nutjobs who post conspiracy theories and rumors as if they were actual facts and evidence.”
Hey! That’s what I was going to say!! That is why you aren’t notable Frank
“IMAO is run by a bunch of arrogant partisan nutjobs” ? Wow, antodav. sniff thanks a lot.
I think he meant Wikipedia and not IMAO… or I hope so.
Well Google returns 4,210 results for “IMAO + notable” vs 3,260 results for “IMAO + not notable”. Guess that means you’re pretty notable, Frank.
Though this study does not prove anything scientifically, it does show that I had nothing better to do during my lunch hour.
Notable? Hell it’s barely readable. Except for the lavishly illustrated cartoons (I wish I could draw) that are soon to be syndicated world wide…
Stuck in the quicksand of Unfunny…do you really want to be noticed by so much pole inserted into so much butt?
I am here. Therefore IMAO is notable.
I noticed the t-shirt babe, does that count for “notable”?
I find it quite notable that Frank J. draws quite fine political cartoons of the humor genre. It’s even more notable that his stick drawings are actually as good as an average seven year old.
Yep, IMAO, is notable!
And if that argument doesn’t grab you, try this one. The future undecided voters at an undisclosed high school in rural southeastern Ohio are fast leaning to adult conservatism due to the humor of Frank J. IMAO where it’s cool to be conservative.
Gracie
IMAO is the first blog I have ever read. I found it by googling anti-Moore websites. I linked to other blogs but I am only addicted to IMAO. FrankJ obviously uses subliminal messaging which is surely notable.
IMW alone makes IMAO notable.
It gives me a glimpse of a great future, where normal Americans are allowed to kick ass,liberals are scorned, foriegners are subjugated, and dangerous foriegners are providing nutrition for the bottom feeders in our ecosystem.
No other site on the web that I know of has anything comparable to IMW.
Most of the rest of Frank’s shit is moderately funny too.
Maybe Chomps could pay a visit to this Wikipedia dude.
you are notable, look at your naked pic at the mountaineermusing.com parody site. WOW without the pixels.
You guys are forgetting Frank’s most important contribution to the world EVER — Nuke the Moon. I don’t think the wikipedia folks have made that association yet. But if they knew that they were dealing with “the guy that wants to nuke the moon” I think it’d go in post-haste.
IMAO is notable if only for revealing the truth about Glenn Reynolds. A truth that the wikipedia people have closed their eyes to. The truth of puppy-blending.
The mere fact that, at a bare minimum, the Fox News Network makes occasional reference to Bloggers who also list IMAO in their Blog lists, makes IMAO notable.
But the fact that I, CDR Will, deign to comment on this blog makes it not only notable, but more important to today’s society than the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
Of course, that really isn’t saying much.
You are not noteable because you are a right wing conservative pig who loves the JOOS!
I meant Wikipedia…sorry 🙁
This is OT to this thread because for some reason the other comment page to the “Ronin thought of the day” post, asking for blog links, doesn’t wanna come up for me..
Anyway, here is my contribution. Scroll to the last two. I thought these were pretty damn cool.
^^^
That was me, again. JEEZ, I’ve been screwing up alot lately.
But anyway, yeah…WIKIPEDIA has about as much credibility, objectivity, or non-partisanship as the Mainstream Media. They do offer some interesting facts about people that can’t be found elsewhere (look up the biographies of Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson for good examples), but the encyclopedia’s integrity is greatly tainted by the lunatic fringe who seem to run amok in the place.
IMAO is notable b/c it is my favorite humour blog (2nd overall), and one day I will be famous, and everyone will care which blogs I like.
My defense of blogs in general (and IMAO as an example of such) is notable and should be entered as a wonderful example of fisking stupid whiney liberal asshats.
Of course, that’s just my opinion.
It is notable to me as it is the first blog I see after mine every morning and the forth overall web site I look every morning after Drudge, Fark, and mine. I am sure that there are others out there with the same amount of loyalty which makes it notable.
I deem your site notable. I print it out and take notes on it all day.
Frank you caught me about 18 months ago with Nuke the Moon. You are notable.
However, you should sell your NTM plan to Rumsfeld.
I can see it now…”hello, Jacques?”. Also, instead of nuking ourselves we should just nuke a piece of France. We bought the damn place with our blood.
Frank, if I had a blog, I would link to yours. Since actual linking among blogs is ‘backscratching’, my not linking to you from my non-blog makes IMAO significant. (In all fairness I do plan to eventually start my own blog, and then I’ll link to you and make you insignificant).
Frank, I have you linked twice on my blog (guess I make up for humanoverlord). :o)
IMAO is a most notable weblog because it brought, and continues to bring, humor with it’s over the top creativity and style at a dangerous time in this country (world even) when I, personally, thought nothing would ever be funny again. There’s also suspense, romance (yeah I had to keep coming back to see if FrankJ would properly woo the lovely SarahK), real information embedded with the funny (even if you need a bulldozer to find it), and gives one the sense of community (and some more laughs) when reading reader’s comments. Apparently a whole lotta people agree with me. Also, because FrankJ will be famous some day and everyone will laugh at the dumbasses at Wikipedia who said his blog wasn’t notable.
Wikipedia is really not that notable to me because I only heard of them recently through IMAO and what do they offer me? Nothing. Hardly a chuckle. More like a groan only shorter. Like “bah”.
So there.
Where’s my asshat?
I think that if there is a debate about the worth of something, that in and of itself is proof that the something has worth.
I liken this to a discussion about whether to ban or not ban a popular but controversial book (say, Harry Potter). If there is a big public outcry to ban the book, then more people are going to want to read the book, making it more important to keep the book available.
Frank, you are now the Harry Potter of the web.
Can someone explain to me why we care what Wikipedia thinks?
FrankJ: to whom do wish to be notable? I don’t remember how I found this blog during the heat of the election campaign, but I found your approach interesting and funny.
Do the weenies at whatever-pedia understand that DU and that anti-draft site that adverted briefly here during the election are indifferent at best to the fact that good men (and women) bleed and sometimes die to preserve the right of those A-holes to mock them for their sacrifice?
There’s no such thing as bad publicity, I guess, but forgive me if I refuse to give a shit.
God Bless ‘Em All.
Semper Fi
Wikipedia is now urging me to stop updating the Instapundit page.
I say every IMAO reader should make it a daily ritual to check the Instapundit page for content, and edit as necessary.
Some Gamaliel calls it “utterly insignificant”. That should be a good signal or something. By the use of long words like “utterly”. Of course anybody using very hard words like that should be either some genius or some arrogant nobody. Make a guess…
Thanks Mongo for picking up the slack.
And let us not forget that IMAO is being read internationally. Why just this last week they were trying to figure out his “In My World: The Fallujah Peace Accord” just like US!
Gracie
IMAO is noteworthy because it taught this immigrant (and her friends from foreign lands) everything she needed to know about America and why it is great. It is therefore a crucial facet of American foreign policy. Hearing about SMITE, Chomps and Buck has struck fear into the hearts (if they have them) of Commies the world over.
Notable I tell you.
Is your last name really “Fleming”?
No, don’t believe it.
I do have to say that IMAO’s noteworthiness-quotient would increase drastically if there was a Happy Dance…
Frankly, I’m beginning to think the main Wikipedia is outliving its usefulness. The offshoots devoted to specific topics seem to be more focused on delivering information (here is one I help contribute to) than these guys. They seem to be rather out of the loop; if they don’t think blogs are important to the modern Internet landscape, they’ve been sleeping. Perhaps the answer is to start a blog wiki…if that wouldn’t be redundant in some way.
Blog wiki? Wiki blog? Frog blast the vent core!
Anybody who thinks of Wikipedia as “them”, should start editing. It’s an open system. Add data, shake, sift. Lather, rinse, repeat. It winds up being a pretty useful research tool. Even very heated debates generally congeal into useful analysis.
The weak point is just what you’re looking at– whether or not to include an article. Probably, we need another sister project– wikivanity, wikiculture, or something like that.
All you have to do Frank is have an angle. Instead of trying to start with a listing about IMAO, you could try to add a page about the Great Blog War and the Alliance of Free Blogs, and the Axis of Naughty. Later (like 2 weeks) have someone post about the blog war and how IMAO started it. All very easy. Just got to think Fourth Dimensionally. “Yeah yeah I have a real problem with that.”
IMAO who?
Wikipedia is mistaken in not adding “puppy blender” to Instapundit’s page.
Try Googling it.
It seems that they’re main argument is VANITY. Well then, if the seven deadly sins are the basis for judgement shouldn’t Farenheit 9/11 be removed for Gluttony, Vanity, Envy, Anger, and Sadness. That only leaves out lust and avarice. I don’t really know what avarice means so that fat moron might even fall into that catagory but I know there is no lust in that man except for maybe a whopper or two…thousand. Anyway, you should be listed but shouldn’t want to be because who the hell cares about a
Wikipedia anyway.
It’s baaaaaaaack. See item 7 in the
Evidence of Electronic Voting Bias section.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_U.S._presidential_election_controversy
Who really gives a damn what Wikipedia lists anyway?
Looked like most of the responses were posted by the usual gang of self-important asshats.
Screw ’em!
Looks like you’ve been deleted, Frank.
All your note-worthiness are belong to us!
Notable? You should settle for Mostly harmless, as Douglas Adams described the Earth.