Talk:Is Google Making Us Stupid?

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Ideas for expansion

The most obvious way of going about building a stub article here would be to create one section on what the article says ("Thesis"/"Synopsis"/"Argument") and one on people's responses to it ("Impact"/"Reaction"/"Reception"), and go from there. the skomorokh 17:45, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I did that roughly. The nuance will come as I actually read the reactions. It is a very interesting article and so the coverage of the different facets of the article could merit subsections within Reaction and even Argument.Manhattan Samurai (talk) 18:09, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notability concern and possible merge

Is such a magazine article notable enough for WP? Usually I am on the inclusionist side, but this seems a bit of a slippery slope to me -the fact a recent article has been discussed on blogs does not seem me enough to warrant a brand new article in WP. I personally would merge the article in Criticism of Google. --Cyclopia (talk) 18:27, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not blogs. Every major newspaper: WSJ, NYTIMES, Globe and Mail... I'm moving to my userspace to make the next major edits to this article. The reactions are nuanced enough to merit a decent summary style article on the magazine article.-Manhattan Samurai (talk) 18:32, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE: I am working on a draft here: User:Manhattan Samurai/Is Google Making Us Stupid?. Join me.Manhattan Samurai (talk) 18:36, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your clarification -the information is ~~probably~~ notable ~~(Technically I wait for references, but I am quite sure they will come)~~ (Checked now, it is referenced in the draft). Yet I am still convinced also that the merge is the best thing to do. I explained my point of view on the merge discussion in Talk:Criticism of Google#Merge proposal. --Cyclopia (talk) 19:13, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" is not in fact about Google, but rather cognition.Manhattan Samurai (talk) 19:17, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Right. I re-read the article and I fully agree that Criticism of Google is not the right place. Sorry. I have a counter-proposal, discussed below. --Cyclopia (talk) 21:29, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Possible merge with Internet

I re-read the article, thought a bit about it, and I have a proposal. The magazine article is, in fact, a kind of review on (a few aspects of) the cultural impact of the Internet. Quite surprisingly, there is no article on it, nor any relevant section on the Internet or World Wide Web articles. I again personally feel that this article is better not as a standalone, but as a section of Internet, and specifically it should be merged in a section regarding the cultural impact of the Internet. In this way:

The Carr article content, the sources referenced in it and the responses to it could be discussed in full and in context, with the addition of further (and possibly future) references.
This would be an extremly good start for a section on the cultural impact of the Internet, that in my opinion is badly needed.

I therefore propose a merge of the content of this article in a section on the cultural impact of Internet. --Cyclopia (talk) 21:29, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]