[Wikipedia-l] Non-notability "abuse"

[Ray Saintonge]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> Ronald Chmara <ron at Opus1.COM> wrote 
>   
>>> Xiaxue - Singapore's top blogger. Claims to notability:
>>>       
>> Does your encyclopedia list bloggers, too?
>>     
>>> Chen Liping - one of Singapore's top actresses. Claims to notability:
>>>       
>> Does your encyclopedia list actresses, too?
>>     
> I completely fail to see what's so magic in "encyclopedias" that they
> must not list bloggers or actresses. Specially when they are not bound
> by the limits of the paper. 
>
> I'm completely uninterested by Ms. Chen Liping or Mr. Xiaxue but the
> fact they have an article does not change anything for the articles
> which do interest me. So, they are not a problem.
>   
If articles about Singaporeans are going to interest Singaporeans who 
can complain?
> Let's go back to the original issue: "non-notability" is used way too
> much and it is strongly biased towards a particular country (nobody
> suggested to delete [[en:Julia Stiles]] or [[en:Elizabeth
> Mitchell]]). And there was never strong reasons given *why* useless
> articles should be deleted. Because they take hard disk space?
Many deletion debates use up far more disk space than the subject 
articles themselves.

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