On 6/15/07, The Mangoe <the.mangoe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/14/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)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.