David Gerard wrote:
Geoff Burling (geoff@agora.rdrop.com) [050519 09:58]:
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Tony Sidaway wrote:
Notability is not really definable. Jimbo has even suggested that it's a proxy for verifiability.
Last time I saw the word used on VfD, context suggested that it was the equivalent of "another article about a teenager whose most important achievement so far is not dropping out of high school, which was posted by her/his friend or relative."
Far too often I see it used to mean "it must not be important because I've never heard of it."
My personal fav in this category is renowned computer scientist Ralph Griswold. Apparently if you developed novel new languages in the 1960s, that's undiscovered prehistory to the young PHPers.
:-)
Stan