On 6/15/07, The Mangoe the.mangoe@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/14/07, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
Saying all university presidents are notable is just the first step towards a sane policy, and one which has i think been taken--saying all research university full professors are notable has also been consistently maintained at AfD. There are some things about which consensus does form in a sensible direction.
Well, if everyone in a certain position is notable, then we could go forth and say that all positions are notable.
And we'd be finally approaching a reasonable solution to the question of notability: If they are the subject of multiple reliable third party sources, then they're notable; position is irrelevant.
At any rate, there are some 1400 tenure and tenure-track faculty at UMD. Harvard has more. That makes hundreds of thousands "notable", just counting present faculty; the dead of course hugely outnumber them. The survival of the project relies upon the lack of interest most people have in entering these directories (for that is what they will largely be).
Are you suggesting that the project won't survive with 1400 additional entries? If so, I have to disagree.