[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Opt Out for Not So Notable Biographies

[David Gerard]

On 08/04/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:

> One way to determine notability sufficient to justify a Wikipedia
> biography is whether that person has already had a biography published
> by a reliable third-party source, either in a form of a newspaper
> article or a book. If we were to adopt a "no first biography"
> criterion, it would ensure not only that our subjects are truly
> notable, but would also help to ensure accuracy, because we'd have a
> published biography to base the Wikipedia article on.


Encourages systemic bias. Wikipedia suffers badly enough from that.


- d.