[WikiEN-l] Borderline notable bios (yes, again)

[Oldak Quill]

I cannot see that the Japanese rule is different to ours in type, it
is different in degree. I would disagree with the rule simply because
we have the ability to store far more information on far more people
of notability (Wikipedia is not paper). Yes, the occasional person of
lesser notability will be vandalised, but this would occur wherever
you draw the line.

"Notability" has been too heavily relied upon thus far, it is entirely
unquantifiable and shouldn't be used as a measure of worthiness for
inclusion. I say we adopt a far more liberal approach and delete only
those articles which are clear vanity/defamation.

Of course, I don't provide a solution for protection of these lesser
known articles against vandalism. Perhaps VandalBot should be provided
with a watchlist of vulnerable words which tend to be used in both pro
and contra vandalism, but that's for somewhere else.

On 13/07/06, Rob <gamaliel8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/12/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Basically, if you're not a "public figure" (which seems to be defined
> > quite narrowly - perhaps in a similar way to the Western defamation
> > definition?), *you don't get named* at all, much less have an article
> > on you. I'm not a public figure. Angela's not a public figure. Daniel
> > Brandt's not a public figure. You probably are, and so's Xeni, but
> > there's the cutoff, I guess.
>
> "Probably"?  If you make the Time 100 anything, you're a public
> figure.  There's no gray area.
>
> Brandt is a public figure because, among other reasons, he's been
> interviewed by or featured in The New York Times about a half dozen
> times, and he's not only done this willingly (as opposed to being
> sucked into a news controversy like Brian Chase), he's courted it
> through press releases and other means.
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