On 19/08/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
I do. For barely notable people, information in Wikipedia could have a disproportionate effect on their life. We should be aware of that, and behave accordingly.
That should be a consequence of doing a good editorial job, not a driver of it - that way lies Sympathetic Point of View, not Neutral Point of View. We must *avoid* implying SPOV.
A useful heuristic is to take notability down to the detail level, i.e. is this fact really notable? The example in one of the many versions of WP:LIVING was a minorly notable scientist who happens to have had a messy divorce. Unless the messiness was itself notable, it's not likely to make it a better article for the reader.
- d.