The only
way I can see to interpret 1) is to make "notable"
mean something like "well known".
Yes, it was a mistake on my part.
And frankly, the rule doesn't make sense to
me. Providing
someone with information on something when they request it
isn't advertising.
Advertising is when you provide someone with information
other than what they requested.
IOW, if someone does a search for "Bob's Garage Band" and
they get information on it, how is that advertising?
I'm not 100% sure of the logic either, but articles get turfed for being
"vanity" all the time. Even, as we have seen recently, when they are
written by people unknown to the subject.
Actually now that I think about it, maybe a subject *does* get false
notability from being on Wikipedia. If I searched for Bob's garage band
and found nothing but a crufty geocities website, that would be one
thing. If I found a fully-fledged Wikipedia article, I would think
something completely different about them. I would think they were more
notable than they really were.
Steve
What if the Wikipedia article said that they weren't notable?
What exactly does notable mean, anyway?