On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
I've proposed the "Can someone write an FA on the language's modern literature?" criterion as a useful surrogate for the types of criteria you suggest.
But just saying that a person "can" do something doesn't mean that the person "will" do it. Volunteers work on what they want to work on, and if nobody wants to write a particular article or class of article, it will never get written.
Through Wikipedia policy, if the article exists then the topic must be notable. However if the article doesn't exist, that doesnt mean that the topic is non-notable. What this is, is a test with potential false negatives.
--Andrew Whitworth