Hi Asaf,
Thanks for your thoughtful input as usual.
Wikipedia community is the community of contributors to Wikipedia.[1]
When someone says "The Wikipedia community will decide", I tend to interpret this as a decision by group of Wikipedians since a single person cannot refer to himself/herself as a community.
If what Flo meant by "Wikipedia community " is "someone from the community", that's fine.
Regards,
Isaac
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_community
On Oct 2, 2017 6:45 PM, "Asaf Bartov" abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 8:31 PM Isaac Olatunde reachout2isaac@gmail.com wrote:
Neither the "Wikipedia community " nor the "Nigerian community" is to decide whether they merit a Wikipedia page or not. One does not become a subject of a Wikipedia article by creating a video for WMF. If they had been the subject of multiple independent reliable sources, someone with no conflict of interest will probably write about them and this has nothing to do with the Wikipedia community or the Nigerian community.
That's rather pointlessly argumentative, Isaac, and I am responding just to set the record straight for anyone reading with less experience who might be getting the wrong idea:
that "someone" you mention who could write an article if there are good sources *would* be from the Wikipedia community, and that is what Florence meant. It *is* accurate to say that the notability would be determined by the community.
It is also true that the determining of notability would not necessarily happen now: it happens when someone decides the topic is notable and writes about it, and again whenever someone else decides to content the notability and start a discussion. But until someone decides the topic is notable and writes an article, the question is undecided.
A.