On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
Should we, as I suggest there, cut a bit of slack for artciles about something in the Third World, or do we just accept the "no reliable third party sources for notability" mantra.
This is a special case of a fundamental problem with Wikipedia: the demand for sources and notability produces a heavy bias towards things which are on the Internet and can be easily found.
I'd say to accept it, but I'm hard pressed to find a reason to do so other than IAR. (Which proves that IAR can apply to *anything*... how many of you thought there would ever be a case where it needs to be used to ignore notability?)