On 04/05/06, Gallagher Mark George m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
G'day Steve,
On 03/05/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
As for "an article with no claim to notability", I actually have no idea what that phrase means.
An article has to establish the notability of its subject. If it doesn't do that, it's subject to speedy deletion.
...I recite.
No, it has to *assert* the notability of its subject. When clearing up CAT:CSD I see a lot of speedy taggings where the tagger simply figured "sure, there's an assertion of notability there, but I don't think it's good enough". Wrong.
There is, of course, the fact that most people (myself included) interpret it as "no assertion of plausible notability". "John Smith was the first man to climb Everest in a week" is an assertion of notability, and it's plausible. "John Smith was the first man to climb Olympus Mons" is an assertion of implausible notability.
And "is the world's sexiest man" would seem a pretty good definition of notability, but - strangely enough - we tend to ignore that the ten thousand speedied articles saying this are asserting notability. :-)
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