On 5/15/07, Gallagher Mark George m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
You *are* taking the piss, and quite well, too.
No. It has been argued that if we are to have notability standards they must be based on core policies. Fine so what is the simplest way to do that:
There must be enough verifiable sources to write a NPOV article.
Looks simple but isn't but also works a darn sight better than you would expect.
It can also be used to deal with related issues. "subject area notability guidelines must be based on the probability of there being enough verifiable sources to write a NPOV article.
Of course I'm not saying it is uncontroversial. It produces certain forms of Systemic bias but so will any system within wikipedia's rules. It is over reliant on [[WP:V]] but I haven't found a way around that yet.
It is also important to understand that this only applies to articles as a whole not to elements within articles.