[WikiEN-l] Verifiability equating to notability

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Mark Gallagher 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 ...
> 

Serves you right for being awake at 6 am! And yes, /I/ remember it.


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