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, either in a form of a newspaper article or a book. If we were to adopt a "no first biography" criterion, it would ensure not only that our subjects are truly notable, but would also help to ensure accuracy, because we'd have a published biography to base the Wikipedia article on.
Encourages systemic bias. Wikipedia suffers badly enough from that.
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