2009/2/23 Ben Kovitz <bkovitz(a)acm.org>rg>:
> I'm feeling pretty hot about salience at the
moment. I'll take a crack
> at a short essay tonight, incorporating what people have posted here.
Couldn't wait. List of topics is now here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BenKovitz/Salience
Thanks, Charles, for suggesting the word "salience". :)
There was some coverage of this matter in WP:BLP - that only
noteworthy details of a noteworthy person should be included. (The
hypothetical example given is the subject having had a messy divorce -
for a minorly notable physicist it's probably not relevant, for a
politician it may have been a widely reported scandal.)
- d.