[WikiEN-l] Frustrated

Rich Holton richholton at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 13:01:16 UTC 2007


Christiano Moreschi wrote:
> My thoughts: it is possible to have NPOV-lists with POV-sounding titles: 
> as example, List of major opera composers is a featured list. The 
> methodology there is a good model: compile ten external, reputable lists 
> of Major Opera Composers and those who appear on the majority of those 
> lists appear on the Wikipedia list. That seems to work quite well, and 
> it reflects existing scholarship in this area accurately.
> 
> So, it might be worth seeing whether something similar could work with 
> this List of Tall Men. Is this at al possible?
> 
> Alternatively, something to think about might be a list of World Record 
> Holders for height, or something similar. But the current arbitrary 
> definition of x.y metres is not really acceptable. Arbitrary definitions 
> are original research.

Just curious...would [[List of people taller than eight feet]] be OR?

-Rich



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