Saying that "notability is permanent" is a kind of wishful thinking, but it's hardly worth arguing. What I find more interesting is that one can neatly quantify the effect of various means of spotlighting articles. For the two articles I had that made "Did you know" in the period, the notice was worth 4-8 thousand views.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Relata Refero wrote:
Not to sound pedantic about it, but "anything" pop culture? Even outdated pop culture?
It's been some time since I checked the policies but notability is supposed to be permanent. If something was notable in the 1800s, then it's worthy of an article even if it isn't notable now. Otherwise most of our coverage of historical figures would be labeled "historycruft" and deleted and/or redirected to various list articles.
Assuming, of course, there isn't some other double standard underlying the labeling of "cruft". :)
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