geni wrote:
On 11/4/06, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
Though I should note, popularity is hardly the only concern of an encyclopedia, hence the coverage of academic topics in more detail than their popularity would imply. I should think it is not an excessively insane view to point out that in terms of "value to the world" (Which is really what we mean by notability, let's face it) pornographic actors rank far, far below many areas we are far more selective about. Even a Pokemon is more exceptional than someone who's claim to fame is mostly that they have had sex.
Pokemon is setting the bar rather high. Other than perhaps playboy I doubt there is much in the field of porn better know than pokemon.
You have ignored my second point. People write about porn. It is after all where the word comes from.
The one difference between these two topics is that Pokémon is a fairly recent phenomenon, and it's easier to confine all that could be reasonably said about it. Porn has been around much longer to the point that some would even consider the Book of Ruth in the Bible to be pornographic. This makes it a lot more difficult to determine what porn is notable. None of us would exist without sex, and that could have the effect that naming someone's parents is inherently pornographic. :-) Even I would admit that simply saying that someone had sex is not normally notable, but having sex publicly or on film could alter that parameter.
A great guideline, so long as you're willing to ignore all but the most pathological of articles. Unfortunately, that's a bad way to approach the topic.
Not really. You just follow the standard aproach that they only need to be produced when their existance is challanged
I'm glad to see you mellowing with age.
Unlikely - with several hundred admins, it could well be a very long time before problems promoting new ones move to the realm of explosion.
There were rather fewer when people started complaining. Things change adminship is a bigger deal than it used to be (so is editorship for that matter).
That's sad. As flaky as the leaves may seem they owe their life to the roots.
Ec