[WikiEN-l] Notability meta-guidelines

[Stephen Bain]

On 1/19/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 1) A subject should not become *more notable* by appearing in
> Wikipedia.  {The vanity principle}

I would put it this way: an article should not exist solely to make
its subject more notable. If an article makes the subject more well
known, alongside educating the reader about the topic of which the
subject forms a part, then that is no problem.

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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com