Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/18/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Superficially "human dignity" is a fine standard, but like notability it is a subjective standard. This makes it difficult to narrow the scope of its application.
We could try. We haven't tried very hard with notability. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notability - it basically says "after 5 years of Wikipedia, we still have no consensus whatever on what should be in or out, or even, whether a policy on what should be in or out should exist". That's a pretty major failing.
In many ways yes. There was a tendency at one time to consider notability and verifiability as closely associated, but I still view them as distinct. Notability can often depend on context and local interest. Even if the information is meaningless to most people on the other side of the world it can be interesting to the residents of a town and to that town's expatriates who may otherwise have difficulty finding information about their home town.
The discussion about whether we should have Angela's biography is curious. Being a director of an organization that runs a top-100 website alone makes her notable. Of course, the same standards for accuracy should apply as for any other living person.
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