I am sorry for providing only a basic idea of what I was looking for.
No, I am not limiting the people of a niche for discussion. Anyone can discuss things. However, more weight should be given to the opinions of the people who KNOW what they're talking about -- this should be reflected by their article contributions. That is what I consider "qualified." Now, if we were to make cabals of people who can verifiably be considered experts (like how Citizendium has Editors), then they sure could be able to speak but let them yield not so much power because everyone is important. This gives me an idea...
Let's not talk about countries or things like that -- topics are topics. Cornwall is Cornwall, Scotland is Scotland, Egyptian literature is Egyptian literature, things of that nature. I define a topic as something that has a main article and more articles expanding on the idea (remember: strict definitions are instruction creep).
On 1/12/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/12/07, James Hare messedrocker@gmail.com wrote:
I suggested something on another thread that stated that only people
with
background in a certain field should be qualified to judge notability. Chemists determine chemical notability,
Define your terms
Finns determine notability of Finnish folk,
Um trying that with the countries around the balkans would be um interesting if you were at a safe distance.
the list goes on.
Not really since you have failed to define what the list was of. Countries? So only australians can talk about [[Ball's Pyramid]]. How are you defineing Countries anyway? Does scotland count? What about cornwall?
Perhaps it's time to give AFD a good ol' reworking to separate the opinions of people who are qualified to speak about the subject's notability and outsider's opinions (both are
important,
but we can't put the fingers of clueless people on the red button).
Define qualified.
Hopefully, through this, closing AFDs will be based less on vote
counting
and more on evaluating the opinions of people.
Or you could try going to AFDs and commenting rather than voteing.
-- geni
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