"David Gerard" wrote
Steve Bennett wrote:
- A subject should not appear in Wikipedia when many more subjects in
i>ts category or field do not. {The insignificance principle}
This is a very bad idea. We lack great swathes of many areas. 2. would
only be a good idea if our systemic bias were negligible, when it's nothing of the sort; pretending it is is counterproductive.
Agree with David. In fact this sort of reasoning is rarely useful. Tell people to write about what they are not sufficiently informed/motivated to write about, rather than what they know or are interested in researching and they are hardly likely to give of their best.
Charles