On 21/12/2007, Nathan Awrich <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If the core of notability is non-trivial coverage in
reliable
secondary sources (not just peer reviewed journals) then most episodes
of most TV shows will fail that guideline, as will most movies and
most novels. And yet, even the most obscure TV shows and episodes have
fans who will want to have articles about their favorite characters,
shows and episodes. There is an argument to preserving the totality of
the output of popular culture for research or other posterity-related
purposes, but that conflicts directly with Wikipedia's notability
guideline.
That sounds like an excellent argument for trashing the "notability"
guideline, which has always been deeply problematic, particularly for
its subjectivity.
Remember that the Wikipedia jargon word "notability" originated as a
back-formation from "non-notable," which was Votes For Deletion jargon
for "I don't like it." And that's about all it still is.
- d.