Ken Arromdee wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Steve Summit wrote:
Just so. We should remember that "notability", and our attempts to objectify it via reference to second-party reliable sources, are only means to an end. The end goal is: utility to our readers. Get hung up on notability if you like, but the encyclopedic inclusivity criterion I like to use is, "Might someone ever look this up and expect/want/need to find this information?
I'm sure plenty of people have expected to find information about TV episodes and characters.
Indeed. When someone goes to Google or Yahoo or whatever and does a search for something, if there's not a good Wikipedia article about it in the results that should almost always count as a failure on our part IMO. The focus some people have on deliberately limiting our scope and reducing our content is not easy to comprehend sometimes.