JAY JG wrote:
I view the claims that Wikipedia has no notability requirements as an extreme position, and one incompatible with creating an encyclopedia (as opposed to a giant repository of all known facts). While Wikipedia has no *explicit* notability policies, I think notability requirements are implicit in both its existing policies and its fundamental mandate.
Implicit policies are only valid as long as everybody reads them the same way. Verbal contracts are recognized by courts, but establishing the details of such contracts is full of difficulty because nobody understands the situation in the same way. That problem is at least partially solved in an explicitly written contract. If a notability rule is so important it should be made explicit, but I suspect that any attempt to do so with meet with significant resistance.
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