Fastfission wrote:
Well, recognizing that Wikipedia itself is becoming a cultural object, wouldn't it make sense at the very least to say "When it is more notable than its inclusion in Wikipedia would be"? ;-)
Put more simply, if I were in EB, it would be pretty amazing and the most notable thing about me ("Otherwise unnotable man included in Encyclopedia Brittanica," the headlines would proclaim). However if I was more notable than my inclusion into EB would be, then it wouldn't be any big deal if they had an article on me -- it might even be expected, if they specialized in breadth.
Of course, the problem with this is that it is self-reinforcing policy! That is, if the standard for inclusion to Wikipedia went down, then the likelihood of having a Wikipedia article about something would go up, which would in turn affect a standard for inclusion based on the likelihood of an article being in Wikipedia... and so on.
FF
So that's the ultimate standard? As soon as nobody is surprised that we have an article on a subject, we need the article?
I love it! :)
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