[WikiEN-l] Human dignity

[Sydney aka FloNight]

---- ScottL <scott at mu.org> wrote: 
> 
> 
> Oldak Quill wrote:
> > Could you give me a definition of "notability" that is not entirely
> > centred around the culture and experience of the person who uses it?
> > I'm yet to hear one. IMO, we should completely abandon, or redefine,
> > "notability" for something more tangible, measurable and worthy of our
> > efforts.
> 
> 
>    I don't know the "I know it when I see it and I'll vote that way" 
> approach does not seem to me to be the biggest problem we have.  I think 
> a bigger problem is focusing on notability too much to the exclusion of 
> such questions as: "Is there enough verifiable information on this topic 
> for an encyclopedic article?",  "Is this topic fit or appropriate for an 
> encyclopedia?", "If this topic were covered completely and throughly 
> would it be worth reading?".  In the case of people article I would also 
> say "Is a single transitory cultural event that the person was involved 
> in the only reason for the article to exist?"  There are other questions 
> things to consider other than if the topic or person meets some 
> arbitrary bar of notability and I suspect that putting much effort into 
> rigidly defining notability would exacerbate the tendency to ignore 
> other considerations (like human dignity).
> 
> Dalf

Dalf,

Agree that more thought needs to go into these decisions.

Sydney