We could just as easily extend this a little and say that the University of Maryland is a relatively minor figure among American Universities, or Maryland among American States.
And there will be information on every one of them available to the undergraduates as long as the university maintains a library. It may be hard to find some of it outside UMd until it is all online, but the library is already there.
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.
And the very idea of an encyclopedia--the basic conception underlying the whole notion--is to be complete.
DGG
On 6/11/07, The Mangoe the.mangoe@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/11/07, Eugene van der Pijll eugene@vanderpijll.nl wrote:
Have you at the very least changed the link to [[Charles Bishop (University of Maryland)|]] ?
I didn't make such a link, because I don't think there should be such an article. Bishop was a minor figure in UMCP history and I'm not going to be the one to suggest that he should have an article.
I presume some completionist undergraduate at UMCP will eventually stub out the rest, but more likely than not they'll stay that way forever because there simply isn't any other information to be had. And I dunno, if those article show up for AfD a bunch of people are going to say that all university presidents are notable as such, and if anyone goes to the UMCP website and sees that there's no information on them, and says so, someone else will tell them to go look elsewhere. But it's unlikely anyone will look elsewhere.