2009/2/16 Phil Nash <pn007a2145(a)blueyonder.co.uk>uk>:
I think the downside might be exactly what is covered
by [[WP:NOT]] at
present, and especially [[WP:NOR]]; I've seen several articles that were
extremely worthy as research projects, but offended against those policies,
and [[WP:SYNTH]] in particular. I hated to nominate for deletion, but it had
to be done, within existing policy. I hoped we would not lose those
obviously committed and competent editors. The problem is that relaxing
[[WP:NOR]] and [[WP:SYNTH]], if not done with extreme care, opens the
floodgates to all sorts of abuse, and that is why I don't think it should
happen.
I think we can relax the notability guidelines without relaxing our
fundamental policies. We could change "multiple independent
non-trivial sources" to "one independent non-trivial source" (I'm not
sure that would allow for many additional articles, but you get the
idea).