I Think I Just Learned Something Important About the Universe

[unforth]

Searching on Wikipedia, I can find all kinds of information on obscure manga artists and their works. But Katie MacAlister? A best selling romance novelist? Nada, nothing, zilch. I think I just learned something important (though, I'll admit, perhaps obvious) about the kinds of people who write wiki articles. :)

Edit: I take it back. There IS a page for Katie MacAlister. It's just written all weird, and so is very hard to find. :) Like, searching for Katie MacAlister doesn't actually FIND it. And here I thought I'd learned something. Bah. Maybe I've learned that romance novel fans can't code data correctly.

Comments

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Google on "katie macalister" + wikipedia found it, as did a Wiki-internal search on Katie MacAlister. A google search on the name doesn't bring up the page, no, at least not within my patience.

[unforth.livejournal.com]

The first attempt at a wikipedia internal search actually DIDN'T break up the name, hence the rant. :)

[mistress-sin.livejournal.com]

and why, pray tell, are you looking up katie macalister??

have you read the dragon series yet. . . i remember the vampire stories but i can't recall the dragon stories. . .

[unforth.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the dragon series yet. I was looking up Katie MacAlister because LibraryThing (http://www.librarything.com) has just added a "links" section to their author pages, and I was playing around linking to things Wikipedia pages related to the author's and books on my author listed page.

That probably didn't make any sense. It's not the sort of thing that lends itself to explanation, I guess. :)