On 2/26/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
In particular, criticism from outside that our processes are opaque or too complicated or too arbitrary should be listened to. Some of the most insightful comments on our processes come from new users who have just encountered them for the first time.
I would never argue that we should ignore outside criticism. But there's no need to panic.
The only real way to seriously improve things is ultimately to pick a
set of notability pillars from whence topic-specific notability guidelines can be derived.
Stan Shebs' point (which is how I got involved here in the first place) is that deriving a notability policy from first principles is impossible.
Adam