[WikiEN-l] Defamation policy hypothetical

[David Gerard]

On 19/08/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Incidentally, one of the arguments occasionally surfacing wrt
> notability is "if the Wikipedia article is going to help make this
> organisation famous, they're not notable"
> Perhaps a corrolary is "if the Wikipedia article can significantly
> influence its subject compared to anything else written about them,
> should we have it?"


That sounds useful as a rule of thumb, though I wouldn't like to make
it a solid rule. I'm thinking of articles that are more on the
synthesis side than the restated list of facts side. Though no
examples spring to my mind. Hmm ...


- d.