[WikiEN-l] Verifiability equating to notability

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 5/4/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 5/3/06, Gallagher Mark George <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> > G'day Steve,
> >
> > > On 03/05/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> > > > As for "an article with no claim to notability", I actually have no
> > > > idea what that phrase means.
> > >
> > > An article has to establish the notability of its subject. If it
> > > doesn't do that, it's subject to speedy deletion.
> > >
> > > ...I recite.
> >
> > No, it has to *assert* the notability of its subject.  When clearing up CAT:CSD I see a lot of speedy taggings where the tagger simply figured "sure, there's an assertion of notability there, but I don't think it's good enough".  Wrong.
>
> How does an article go about asserting the notability of its subject?
> What would be an example of an article which asserts notability but
> doesn't establish it?
>
> Anthony
>
Isn't the very fact that an article is written about a subject an
assertion of the notability of the subject?

Anthony