[WikiEN-l] Verifiability equating to notability

Anthony DiPierro wikilegal at inbox.org
Thu May 4 20:18:51 UTC 2006


On 5/4/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>
> G'day Anthony,
>
> > On 5/4/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>  >
> >>"He won the nobel prize!" under the title "Joe Bloggs" would be speedy
> >>deletable because of a lack of context and a desire to see how Jimbo
> >>would react.
> >
> > Would "Joe Bloggs won the nobel prize." be speedy deleteable (assuming
> > it was true, and not patent nonsense).  If so, why wouldn't we want
> > the otherwise deleting admin to just substitute the name for "He" and
> > the period for exclamation point?  If not, which nobel prizes are
> > notable, and which aren't?
>
> You'll have to ask Jimbo about that one.
>
> Serves me right for relying on an incident hardly anyone knew about (and
> fewer remember) for humour ...
>
Heh, I should have known there was something you were talking about
that I hadn't heard about when you mentioned Jimbo.

Of course, the whole concept that "assertion of notability" is a
meaningful standard is rather foreign to me.

Anthony



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