[Wikipedia-l] Non-notability "abuse"

Ian Tresman ian2 at knowledge.co.uk
Thu Sep 20 10:57:33 UTC 2007


At 11:17 20/09/2007, you wrote:
>2007/9/20, J.L.W.S. The Special One <hildanknight at gmail.com>:
> > So, Andre, in your opinion, the question should be: "Where do we draw the
> > line?"
> >
> > That's why we need notability criteria that are objective, not subjective.
>
>Yes, but the big problem, as I wrote, is that it's hard or impossible
>to find objective criteria so that you don't have A and B, such that A
>would be 'notable enough', B not 'notable enough', and at the same
>time subjectively one would consider B to be 'higher' in notability
>than A.


The problem is that a tiny number of editors think that THEY are the 
sole arbiters of notability. The fact is that many concept are 
notable to minority groups, and only the view of their group counts.

Abolish notability and you have no problem.

Regards,


Ian Tresman
www.plasma-universe.com




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