Bryan Derksen (bryan.derksen@shaw.ca) [050520 02:00]:
Perhaps it's time we actually started a page on notability policy so that something more definitive could be worked out rather than relying on these subjective attempts to figure out what other policies imply? That would still leave lots of openeings for subjectivity when determining whether any particular article is notable, but at least there wouldn't be so much argument over "non-notable articles must be purged, inclusionist scum!"/"Anything verifiable deserves an encyclopedia article, deletionist scum!"
We did already. [[Wikipedia:Notability]] redirects to [[Wikipedia:Importance]], which notes that a poll of this sort at [[Talk:Fame and importance]] achieved a simple majority but nothing like consensus (oddly enough). I noted this earlier on.
- d.