David Gerard wrote:
2009/2/23 Ben Kovitz bkovitz@acm.org:
I'm feeling pretty hot about salience at the moment. I'll take a crack at a short essay tonight, incorporating what people have posted here.
Couldn't wait. List of topics is now here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BenKovitz/Salience Thanks, Charles, for suggesting the word "salience". :)
There was some coverage of this matter in WP:BLP - that only noteworthy details of a noteworthy person should be included. (The hypothetical example given is the subject having had a messy divorce - for a minorly notable physicist it's probably not relevant, for a politician it may have been a widely reported scandal.)
There was also something, once upon a time, at [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest]] - I was rather proud of "Wikipedia is not paper, and nor is it a Christmas newsletter". Stuff that resembles "vanity" may do so because it lacks salience. If it looks like newslettercruft it probably should go.
Charles