On 10/03/2008, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Ian Woollard
<ian.woollard(a)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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-Ian Woollard
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