Andre Engels wrote:
2007/1/10, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net
But what if what is written is that so-and-so once wrote an internet page (that a few hundred people have looked at). Do you really want to just keep
that in if you found that he really has done so?
Again, this is a straw man argument. It makes a statement about something that many will find unacceptable and tries to apply the same argument to more uncertain situations.
Yes. And what's wrong with that? Either we have *some* notability criterium, or we have *none*. If we have none, then what criterium are you going to use to remove articles like the above? If we have some, then apparently you DO agree with me that 'notability' is a good criterium, and what we disagree on is the *level* of notability that is required. Which is a wholely different ballgame.
What makes notability a bad criterion is its high degree of subjectivity. It is so broad that it cannot stand alone. What I objected to in my previous message was the temptation to generalize.from obvious cases to more difficult ones.
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