David Gerard wrote:
On 08/04/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
One way to determine notability sufficient to justify a Wikipedia biography is whether that person has already had a biography published by a reliable third-party source...
Encourages systemic bias. Wikipedia suffers badly enough from that.
But remember, this isn't about deciding which biographies to include. It's about which biographies not to allow opting out of. The bias is therefore considerably diluted.