On 10/03/2008, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)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
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-Ian Woollard
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