On 28/02/07, Stan Shebs stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
I suggest: throw out notability and stick to verifiability. (And not a universal WP:RS, which clearly suffers the same problem in practice.)
We've had this discussion before, actually. Things like traffic violatim, ons, locations of stop signs, and owners of real estate are verifiable, because they're (usually) part of the public record. But very few people would argue that those should be part of WP; I would say that it goes against our intuition of what is a summary of human knowledge, vs the entirety, which we might be more inclined to call a "library".
Hm, true. But our present notability guidelines suffer from (a) their original purpose (as an excuse) (b) arbitrary numerical cutoffs. There's something important being missed: what precisely are we talking about?
- d.