On 4/8/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/04/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
One way to determine notability sufficient to justify a Wikipedia biography is whether that person has already had a biography published by a reliable third-party source, either in a form of a newspaper article or a book. If we were to adopt a "no first biography" criterion, it would ensure not only that our subjects are truly notable, but would also help to ensure accuracy, because we'd have a published biography to base the Wikipedia article on.
Encourages systemic bias. Wikipedia suffers badly enough from that.
Would it do that any more than the current NPOV policy? The published biography could be in any language and from any type of publication regarded as reliable in the country of origin.