From: "James D. Forrester" james@jdforrester.org
On Thursday, May 19, 2005 12:43 AM, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
JAY JG (jayjg@hotmail.com) [050519 08:30]:
Fortunately, Wikipedia's notability policies help keep out much of the trivia your proposal would allow. Unfortunately, these policies are much clearer in the case of articles about individuals than they are
in
the case of articles about schools.
Excellent! Where's this notability policy?
Sadly for those that protest its many apparent fantastical abilities, only in their minds.
James, is it only in my mind that [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not]] states "Wikipedia is not a general knowledge base, that is, it is not an indiscriminate collection of items of information. That something is 100% true does not mean it is suitable for inclusion in an encyclopedia."? Did I just imagine that it says "Subjects of encyclopedia articles must have a claim to fame besides being fondly remembered by their friends and relatives." and "Biography articles should only be for people with some sort of notoriety or achievement"? What are these and similar statements, if not notability policies?
Jay.