[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia notability (was "Opt Out for Not So Notable Biographies")

Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com
Mon Apr 9 16:44:56 UTC 2007


Oldak Quill wrote:
> On 09/04/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Oldak Quill wrote:
>>
>> > For these reasons, "notability" is a terrible way to determine whether
>> > an article should be kept or deleted on Wikipedia. The sooner we
>> > abandon it (and start relying on harder measures such as
>> > verifiability), the better.
>>
>> Shameless plug for [[Wikipedia:Article inclusion]].
>
> I've read the page more thoroughly and I fail to see how you could
> have interpreted what I said as a plug for it. I said we should
> entirely abandon notability for verification while that page states
> that an article should be included if it is verifiable and notable.

I apologise, I was shamelessly plugging it, not inferring that you were. 
Sorry if it wasn't clear.

-Jeff

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