On 8 April 2011 15:17, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
"Notability" has always been a broken and
widely-misunderstood aspect of
enWP. My impression is that deWP, for example, sets the bar higher, and
has fewer "problems": in a word, deletionism can work well enough.
Comprehensiveness is of course about total content, while notability is
about topics you recognise. "Salience" is the neglected concept, which
is relative to topic.
I am told anecdotally that many native speakers of German who also
speak good English prefer en:wp for its comprehensiveness.
This may be an example of what we think we should be about conflicting
with what readers actually want and expect.
- d.