Tony Sidaway wrote:
No what I was saying (and I thought it was pretty
obvious) is that
this whole "notability fixed" thing is trivially false. Pepys is the
counter-example: a fellow more known now for something that most
eigheenth century scholars were unaware of, or which they thought
(believing the diaries to be in a private code) would be forever
inaccessible.
I always understood the guideline to mean that notability was
"permanent" in the sense that once someone or something has become
notable they can't become non-notable again. So Pepys was non-notable
during his lifetime, later _became_ notable once his diaries became a
significant source of historical information, and now he will never
become non-notable again. It's a one-way street to notability.
I find this quite reasonable since the fact that someone or something
was notable at one time is itself a notable thing.