Talk:Digerati

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The name rings a bell, but I still think the article is unencyclopedic. [[User:Supadawg|supadawg - ]] 14:05, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

• Delete: Nonce word formed on the pattern of "literati." Spirits who understand computers? Lemon curry? Geogre 15:24, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Hang on, folks! Ok, it's in use. Is it a dictdef? :-) Two issues, here. Geogre 17:56, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • Although it's a lexicographicism now, and not a very good one, implicit in my keep vote below is my agreement with Mindspillage that "an encyclopedic article could be written." In fact this is an article which I think is reasonably likely to grow to at least a stub. It's sort of part and parcel of the dot-com era. You'll notice that AHD4 didn't say where it originated, yet one imagines that it's a coinage that could very likely be traced, and that in itself would be a worthwhile sentence or two. Incidentally, I always thought the reference was to "glitterati," not directly to "literati." [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 18:56, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. The article as it stands is terrible, yes, but the term is in reasonably widespread use, and I think an encyclopedic article could be written. Mindspillage 15:41, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Keep, for reasons given by Mindspillage I think it was invented or at least popularized in Wired magazine, way back when I still had a print subscription to it (five years or more). Hmm... First mention in Google Groups was in 1992: Who are the "digerati"? ... "The article referred to the "digerati". I'm fascinated by this new (to me) word. Does it mean 'people from Digital' or 'computer people'?" The writer refers to "Earlier this week, the New York Times carried an article about George Gilder's article in Upside magazine" so perhaps it's a Gilder coinage. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 17:01, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC) It's in AHD4! Digerati,

PLURAL NOUN: People who are knowledgeable about digital technologies such as computer programming and design: “the chasm between the high claims of the digerati and the misadventures of the novice Net user” (Publisher's Weekly, Publisher's Weekly July 17, 1995). ETYMOLOGY: dig(ital) + (lit)erati.

• Keep - rewrote and wikified. Still a short stub though. -Sean Curtin 19:05, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Still borderline on a dicdef as rewritten IMO, but does no harm and may grow. Give it a chance. Andrewa 20:04, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I've added a list of people who have been named as digerati. A list! A list! Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of edit war! You'll never delete it now! Bwahahahahaha! Notice. The preceding comment is a joke. Smiley follows. :-)

• Keep. In reasonably common use, and can possibly grow beyond the current dictdef. — Gwalla | Talk 02:51, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Internet paedophile?

There was an abusive and inappropriate passage about an internet paedophile called Digerati, which I removed. It also says in a more encyclopaedic way that Digerati is the name of an internet paedophile. If this is true and well-attested, maybe we should keep it. I don't know anything about this person. Michael Keats 20:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

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