On 9/17/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe we need a "notability review board" consisting of experts from different subject areas.
We don't even have a consensus on notability, outside biographical articles, so any such review board would have few teeth. In any case I think we have enough artificial obstacles to content as it is.
I'm in favor of a relaxed attitude to notability. Readers twenty years hence, or two hundred, will not care much whether professor X or politician Y was or was not considered notable in 2005, but the encyclopedia article about him will remain a valuable resource nevertheless.