David Gerard wrote:
On 28/05/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, Wikipedia is not paper, but if we're going to write readable articles not everything can make the cut. Naturally, it's notable incidents that should get in. Trouble is that not everyone agrees on what is notable and what isn't.
Incidents are one thing - putting articles under a name when the incident is the notable thing is another.
I think many (most?) people agree with this in principle, but there's wide disagreement over the threshold for when someone's role in an incident is sufficient to make *them* notable. Serial killers on the FBI's "10 most wanted" list clearly meet the threshold; some lower-level executive embroiled in the Enron scandal clearly doesn't; but there's plenty in between.
-Mark