Steve Bennett wrote:
- A subject should not appear in Wikipedia when many more subjects in
its category or field do not. {The insignificance principle}
This is a very bad idea. We lack great swathes of many areas. 2. would only be a good idea if our systemic bias were negligible, when it's nothing of the sort; pretending it is is counterproductive.
Thus we can say, "come back when c, b and a have been fulfilled to
some extent".
To which the obvious answer is "there is no reason not to start *here*."
- Imaginary or fictitious subjects have less right to appear in
Wikipedia than other subjects. {The fancruft principle}
We are not running out of disk space in any way at all, and 100000 "fancruft" articles don't make it any harder for me to find, e.g., [[EXA]] or [[Xenu]].
This is not a book. If someone makes a book, they can take care of it how they wish (e.g. the Category system).
I do like the first one, though, and this email strikes me as hopefully the start of a good working editorial definition of "notability"!
- d.