Notability in Wikipedia is a joke, as is NPOV. Need I remind you about the article about Alan Cabal that is waiting to reach mainspace?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MichaelQSchmidt/sandbox_The_unloved_articl...
There is a Squidoo lens about Alan Cabal that establishes his notability beyond a doubt:
http://www.squidoo.com/Alan-Cabal
Best, Bill
________________________________ From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 1:42:01 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Notability in Wikipedia
2009/4/27 doc doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com:
David Gerard wrote:
2009/4/27 doc doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com:
Google books is fine, as is google itself. Neither is a substitute for common sense. I'll take the subjectivity of human common sense over the arithmetic of search engines any day.
Certainly. But when someone seems not to be engaging it, it can be useful to wave the actual book (or a scan), not merely say "there's a book."
You are missing the point. I should not have to. If we have reasonably trustworthy information on something that commonsense tells us has some level of enduring significance, then finding a book should be unnecessary. Commonsense, where it is more than just one person's view, should be sufficient.
I'm not saying you should have to, I quite agree. I just lack faith in the common sense of 100% of AFD regulars ...
- d.
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