[WikiEN-l] The Economist on "notability"

[geni]

On 10/03/2008, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are over trillions of stars in the are of space we can see via naked
>  eye or instruments. The analogy generally used to describe is that there are
>  more stars in the universe than sand in the beaches of this entire planet.
>  Clearly a star is a notable object in space worthy of an article. And it is
>  feasible to write entire articles on each and every one of them if something
>  as dull as Proxima Centauri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri)
>  is any indication. We should not dump them for being "Astronomy cruft". We
>  should expand them instead.

Proxima Centauri is near to earth so we can actually study it in some
detail. Thus while objectively it might be considered a bog standard
red dwarf from the POV of humanity it is very interesting.

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geni