On 5/30/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps a good way of looking at this is whether people who don't know the subject personally, and who are generally knowledgeable in a relevant field, would tend to recognize the subject by name or only by description.
Doesn't work. The canal engineer James Green is notable by any reasonable standard but it is possible to know a fair bit about UK canals without knowing his name.
I've seen some very knowledgeable canal people admit that they had to look up the [[Rolle Canal]] and didn't know the name.
Now you can get round both by redefining the relevant field (in this case to canals of South West England rather than UK canals) but by doing that you can make anything notable.