David Monniaux wrote:
On the English Wikipedia (but this is coming on
other ones) we have a
large amount of articles about individual highschools, most of which
have nothing special and are just like the next highschool.
These articles tend: * to lack perspective
[...]
However, when OTRS folks delete such articles as "non notable", they
often face angry remarks, accusations of lack of democratic process,
[...]
All classic reasoning about notability is focused on the fat end
of the tail. Oscars are awarded to the best films, bookstores
list the best selling books, the winners get the prizes. But how
can we achieve fairness, balance, equal coverage at the thin end?
[...]
Perhaps we can't and that's why these articles should be deleted. Isn't that
the whole idea behind the rules about verifiability, orignal research and
notability ?
GL