Continuing this question, may I ask a few related questions:
* Should "notability" be relevant as a test-of-value in a cyber encyclopedia, where the amount of space available, at least theoretically, is unlimited in scope? * Isn't "notability" a relevant issue? For instance, in my village in Goa, India, the old schoolteacher who ran a local tiny grocer's shop was also "notable". So would Wikipedia have the space to include this kind of diversity? * What harm would there be if we extend the argument of "notability" to the grassroots too? I'm not talking about including a page on my pet dog who died on the Wikipedia. I'm more interested in, say, creating space for reflecting the priorities of a tiny language group on the west coast of India, which might not be able to compete with the "notability" levels of a janitor in New York, London or New Delhi (just stretching the argument).
To my mind, I think a stronger test for Wikipedia-inclusion could be accuracy of the entries. As long as outlandish claims are not made about a particular entry, a project like the Wikipedia (not constrained, theoretically, by paper or space ... and