[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia broken

[David Alexander Russell]

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Yes, but the difference is that verifiability is a policy requirement,
whereas notability is not (although notability is often used as a reason
for delete votes in Afd)

Cynical

Mark Wagner wrote:
> On 4/7/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/7/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> We require not only verifiability, but notability. I can create
>>> something today and document it today, but - save in rare
>>> circumstances - I cannot prove its importance today.
>> If something is referenced by a third-party reliable source today,
>> chances are it's important.
> 
> I'd strongly dispute that.  Because of the ease and speed of
> record-keeping and publishing, it's very easy to get third-party
> information on something.
> 
> For example, I could create thousands of stub articles on small
> private schools in Michigan.  But I'd describe them as extremely
> non-notable: every last one of them has students from only a single
> family, often only a single student, and exists as a "private school"
> with significant government records only because of a quirk in the
> Michigan homeschooling law.
> 
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> Mark
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