Re: The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

On 8 March 2014 18:04, Brian J Mingus <[email protected]> wrote:

> The reason the name stuck is that "Baader-Meinhof" is a weird name, and one
> would not expect to see it multiple times independently in short succession.
> Hence the name "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon" (which is also the name of a
> book) is analogous to onomatopoeia in that both represent the thing they are
> describing in some way - this is also similar to homoiconicity. It's a
> perfect name - much better than "frequency illusion" - and a substantial
> number of people now know it by this name, in part due to its longstanding
> and interesting history of existence on Wikipedia, which has advertised it
> to hundreds of thousands of people and generated tens of thousands of
> websites which use it by that name.
> The article should clearly stay!


Now you just need sources to this effect. There's always writing them ...


- d.

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