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>wikipedia's desire for reliable sources which generally means newspapers or academic sources

Which is one of the main ironies associated with Wikipedia notability. Something or someone written about in some small-town newspaper or an obscure journal that five people have read can be considered more notable than something with a fairly big online footprint but nothing canonical.

For that matter, there's a ton of pre-web information that just doesn't really much exist outside of primary sources.