[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia broken

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:30:33 +0200, you wrote:

>I totally support that. I would also like the basic reasons for
>notability guidelines to be stated more explicitly. We don't, from
>memory, have any rationale stronger than "Wikipedia is not paper, but
>still!"

Some time back I tried to include an underpinning policy section in
notability guidelines - the point being that if something is not
notable, it is unlikely to be verifiable from reliable sources.
Notability is a shorthand for WP:V, WP:RS and WP:NOT (an
indiscriminate collection of information).

Case in point: Cleveland Steamer, where at least one voter at AfD said
it should remain because Wikipedia was the only reference he could
find to it.  Cited sources are unquestionably not reliable.
Guy (JzG)
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