On Fri, 18 May 2007, David Gerard wrote:
Here's a question: do we have a source for the
fact that a given fact
is the spoiler? Or is it just an editor deciding?
That question is like asking
"do we have a source for the fact that something
is notable enough to have an article?" Meta decisions don't require sources.
No, not at all - by analogy to living biographies, where we do need
sources for facts being important, rather than merely documented.
Not in the same sense. We need sources as evidence for importance, but we
don't require that a source actually say "this fact is important".
Importance
is something we deduce from sources, not something which must be explicitly
stated in them.