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Aww, I'm not on the list yet :)
Do I need more hits on the search engines? (Y: Yahoo; G: Google)
- Gwyneth Paltrow - Y: 42 million hits; G: almost 10 million hits
- Gwyneth Jones (both) - Y: 494 thousand; G: 106 thousand
- Gwyneth Dunwoody - Y: 312 thousand; G: 55,200
- Gwyneth Herbert - Y: almost 100 thousand; G: 35,100
- Gwyneth Strong - Y: 68,400; G: 30,400
- Gwyneth Powell - Y: 14,600; G: 3,780
- Gwyneth Scally - Y: 3,500; G: 817
- Gwyneth Boodoo - Y: 708; G: 489
My poor little self - Y: 521,000; G: 31,400
So Yahoo ranks me better than Google :)
Nevermind. This was just a vanity comment really! :)
Oh, btw, alternate translations for "Gwyneth" include "white, fair, blessed" (from the root "gwyn").
Gwyneth Llewelyn (talk) 16:16, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
- Things like news articles about you are much more important than raw google hit counts, for getting into Wikipedia. "Gwyneth+Llewelyn". See WP:N Gigs (talk) 12:32, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- Gigs is right, Gwyn: what counts is news articles, especially in traditional media. See Wikipedia:Notability (web), which requires "reliable published works in all forms, such as newspaper and magazine articles, books, television documentaries, websites, and published reports." (I think "websites" was added to the list since I looked last.) Thus I was once thinking of writing a Wikipedia article about web personality Prokofy Neva, since he was mentioned several times in the written press. But why bother, since Prokofy hates Wikipedia, seeing it as another example of evil cyber-communism. I myself have the same problems with Wikipedia that you do: many of my articles (or rather, those of my Sock Puppet) have been erased or defaced, which is discouraging. But I understand both sides of the debate on Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia (which is an updated version of the old fight between WikiReductionists and WikiConstructions on WikiWikiWeb, as described in History of wikis). The reductionist "WikiPolice" are useful in maintaining the standards and relevance of Wikipedia. I just personally have more important things to do than to fight with them all the time. - Danton Sideways (talk) 19:44, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- Ah, ok, that makes sense. Yes, I have just a mere 166 mentions on Google News; "my name in print" is not popular enough. Gwyneth Llewelyn (talk) 21:08, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
- Gigs is right, Gwyn: what counts is news articles, especially in traditional media. See Wikipedia:Notability (web), which requires "reliable published works in all forms, such as newspaper and magazine articles, books, television documentaries, websites, and published reports." (I think "websites" was added to the list since I looked last.) Thus I was once thinking of writing a Wikipedia article about web personality Prokofy Neva, since he was mentioned several times in the written press. But why bother, since Prokofy hates Wikipedia, seeing it as another example of evil cyber-communism. I myself have the same problems with Wikipedia that you do: many of my articles (or rather, those of my Sock Puppet) have been erased or defaced, which is discouraging. But I understand both sides of the debate on Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia (which is an updated version of the old fight between WikiReductionists and WikiConstructions on WikiWikiWeb, as described in History of wikis). The reductionist "WikiPolice" are useful in maintaining the standards and relevance of Wikipedia. I just personally have more important things to do than to fight with them all the time. - Danton Sideways (talk) 19:44, 29 June 2009 (UTC)