On 10/03/2008, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com 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?
Can you find reliable verifyable sources for the subject?
I deliberately picked it to be inane as I could think of, but it actually looks like it. There's sources on scratching, and there's one or two psychological things about scratching behind the ear while talking, you could probably say verifiable things about it. The only thing is whether it's notable? Probably not... I would expect that it's below the notability line.
Most of the stuff that's truly inane won't have any.
I wouldn't like to bet, there's a lot of stuff that may be mentioned in passing that is verifiable without it being something that most people would expect to find in an encyclopedia in its own article.
To give another more edgy and more amusing example that I discovered by accident, I created an article on encyclopedia articles, I figured that there were articles in the wikipedia on every other sort of article (newspaper articles, magazine articles....), so I might as well. Turns out there's not a lot written on it ;-). There's quite a lot written on entire encyclopedias, but even then not much on the articles, it looks like most of the stuff specifically on articles in them is probably either in a book I don't have immediate access to, or a trade secret ;-), so ironically encyclopedia articles might not be notable ;-) I'm not entirely sure which way that argues though ;-)
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-george william herbert george.herbert@gmail.com