-----Original Message----- From: James Hare [mailto:messedrocker@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:19 AM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] (no subject)

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, Finns determine notability of Finnish folk, the list goes on. 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). Hopefully, through this, closing AFDs will be based less on vote counting and more on evaluating the opinions of people.

That is the essence of the matter. People who don't recognize the significance of a subject having a veto power. Let's allow any article to remain that can garner support from 5 active users.

Fred