There is a straw poll going on to move the discussion of WP:N forward.
The main categories are:
Keep (with the possibility of promoting it to policy),
Discuss (to make slight adjustments and regain consensus)
Revise (to create a consensus version, which may never have existed)
Rebuild (either start over from scratch or demote it back to a
descriptive, rather than prescriptive, essay)
Discard (Notability? We don't need no stinkin' Notability)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notability#Straw_Poll
A straw poll is neither a straw nor a pole. Discuss.