On 08/04/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
One way to determine notability sufficient to
justify a Wikipedia
biography is whether that person has already had a biography published
by a reliable third-party source, either in a form of a newspaper
article or a book. If we were to adopt a "no first biography"
criterion, it would ensure not only that our subjects are truly
notable, but would also help to ensure accuracy, because we'd have a
published biography to base the Wikipedia article on.
Encourages systemic bias. Wikipedia suffers badly enough from that.
Would it do that any more than the current NPOV policy? The published
biography could be in any language and from any type of publication
regarded as reliable in the country of origin.