Wikipedia has a real future, and this to me is it: it is a beautiful, worldwide record of what people think they know. Day by day it is going to become a bigger, bolder better record of changing attitudes and ideas…
A commenter described his own experience of adding Australian content to the site, only to see overzealous volunteers (presumably not Australian) marking articles for deletion because they’d never heard of the people or places involved: “What struck me about the process was how difficult it seemed for volunteers to verify whether the work was deserving.”
The Holden Standard was a vehicle manufactured by Holden in Australia. It’s a pretty standard vehicle. As far as standard cars built by Holden go, this is by far the standardest and most Holdeney.
This doesn’t even need a “citation needed” tag. For additional fun, check out the entry’s revision history, showing the careful expansion and polishing it has undergone during the past six months.
New adjective for the Macquarie there. What's not to like?
Holdeney is a word the Australian vernacular has needed for sometime, as encapsulated many years ago in an exchange between John Clarke and Brian Dawe: "Do you own a car?" "No, I have a Holden."