On 10/03/2008, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Ian Woollard wrote:
If I create an article about 'People scratching themselves behind their ears' and the notability guideline is removed, would this article be allowed to stand or not?? And if it stayed, what sort of thing would be in it?
How can the rest of us know what is in it when you haven't written it yet? As long as as this is only a hypothetical straw man we can't tell what deletion or keep criteria will be used.
Without in any way wishing to disrupt anything:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_scratching_themselves_behind_their_ears
Deletion is currently tagged due to alleged lack of encyclopedic quality, lack of notability and it being 'likely socially irrelevant'.
You'll note that scratching behind the ears is a verifiable feature of the world, and it's probably adequately referenced, so this article doesn't necessarily violate WP:VER,
Any extreme inclusionists here presumably want this article to stay, so please improve it to make that happen. People that believe in notability can let it die, even help it die.
Clearly if by encyclopedia you mean simply something with an enormous quantity of information on essentially everything then this article deserves to live.
Personally I feel ambivalent towards it, so I'm not going to participate much further, but it seems to me that it serves as an acid test as to whether people are simply trolling here.
Ec