On 28/02/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
> I suggest: throw out notability and stick to
verifiability. (And not a
> universal WP:RS, which clearly suffers the same problem in practice.)
We've had this discussion before, actually. Things
like traffic
violatim, ons, locations of stop signs, and owners of real estate are
verifiable, because they're (usually) part of the public record. But
very few people would argue that those should be part of WP; I would say
that it goes against our intuition of what is a summary of human
knowledge, vs the entirety, which we might be more inclined to call a
"library".
Hm, true. But our present notability guidelines suffer from (a) their
original purpose (as an excuse) (b) arbitrary numerical cutoffs.
There's something important being missed: what precisely are we
talking about?
- d.