On 4/9/07, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Mgm wrote:
On 4/9/07, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Jeff Raymond wrote:
Either you're notable or not.
Nonsense. Notability ain't pregnancy.
And herein lies the problem. If we can't agree on what is notable, a suggestion like the one we're discussing will never work.
In the real world, at least, notability is relative. I am notable in my family and in my circle of friends, but I'm not notable enough in the real world to have a Wikipedia article. A scientist can be extremely notable in his field but unheard of in the rest of the world. Etc.
(Now, I know, someone mentioned we weren't talking about real-world notability here, but rather Wikipedia notability. I suppose that makes a difference to the argument, though I'm still not sure exactly what.)
If someone is real-world notable and we can back it up, I don't see how Wikipedia notability would be any different.