So, Andre, in your opinion, the question should be: "Where do we draw the
line?"
That's why we need notability criteria that are objective, not subjective.
--
Written with passion,
J.L.W.S. The Special One
2007/9/20, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com>om>:
2007/9/20, J.L.W.S. The Special One <hildanknight(a)gmail.com>om>:
If an article on an American actress as notable
as Chen Liping
was nominated for deletion, the
nominator would probably be admonished - or even blocked - for
disruption. That the American
Wikipedian who nominated the article for deletion (or speedy
deleted) has not heard of it does not
mean it is notable. Notability does not depend on the country the
actress/blogger/hotel is from, but
on whether there is significant coverage of
the actress/blogger in reliable sources.
Whether I agree with that depends on your definition of 'significant'
(and 'reliable' as well). Basically, it's just shifting the discussion
from relevancy to something that is almost as badly defined. Just like
there is a level between "can be seen in one scene of a small movie"
and "won an Oscar for best actress" where an actress becomes notable
enough, there is a level between "got her name mentioned in two
different articles in the Smalltown Weekly" and "had a biography about
her published by a mainstream publisher" where her coverage gets
'significant'.
What I see as a major problem in this point is that people tend to
have widely diverging opinions on where to draw the line, which means
that there are quite a number people who for any issue that actually
comes under discussion, they will have the same opinion. Thus, the
outcome would often more depend on who happen to be the people
involved in the debate than the actual pros and cons of the specific
subject. How to resolve this I do not know, though, since any attempt
at objective criteria would need so many exceptions that it would soon
lead us back to the current situation.
--
Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels
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