Lee Pilich wrote:
Alex Rosen wrote:
So if something doesn't have to notable to be in Wikipedia, then would an article on every single elementary school in the world be OK? How about every single person in the world?
As far as I'm concerned, articles on any person and on any school are fine *if* we can verify the information in those articles. We can probably argue about exactly what is meant by "verifiable" for a looong time (see [[Wikipedia:Verifiabilty]] for some thoughts), but I think that by most standards, it would mean that we wouldn't have articles on most of the people in the world. Requiring things to be verifiable cuts a heck of a lot of stuff out.
I don't think it would cut nearly enough out. For example, a short article listing my place of birth, high school attended, and university attended is easily verifiable through publically available records. However, it doesn't belong in Wikipedia.
-Mark