WP:V is good to get rid of garbage articles on stuff only an elite number of people know, such as an article on a home video or a garage band which at most family members and etc know about. That was and still is the intention behind WP:N and WP:V.
Presence of secondary sources does not necessarily mean a topic is notable. For example every military serviceman has a secondary source covering them, their service record. However not every serviceman is notable. On the other hand you'll find it difficult to find "secondary sources" about certain topics such as articles on settlements or topics concerning low-tech places such as many African countries. Now you would probably find primary sources (official governmental websites for example). Or consider the case of fiction related topics. It may be very difficult to establish Picard to be bald through secondary sources.
Of course having more sources on a topic is welcome. No objections there. But the lack of nor the presence of "secondary sources" has little to do with notability. Verifiability yes, notability not.
I do not understand this sudden urge to raise our bar so high that we are now thinking of deleting just about a million articles or more. This new trend is counter-productive f it follows the course of mass deletion. Editing wikipedia supposed to be fun. It is not fun when there are self righteous notability zealots who spend their entire time finding excuses to delete articles. We ought to avoid that.
Road to hell is paved with good intentions. Lets keep that in mind. It is not beneficial to go to either extreme.
- White Cat
On Feb 2, 2008 3:02 AM, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 02/02/2008, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/02/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
That was the original idea, I agree, but we've moved on from that.
Not remotely. Vast majority of our information is uncited.
And that's a bag thing.
But we haven't deleted the vast majority of our information.
Yet, I guess.
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