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

MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic at gmail.com
Fri Apr 13 12:43:02 UTC 2007


On 4/10/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/04/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [sorry for the blank send, misclicked]
> >
> > On 4/10/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Do you consider a British child actor with a lead role in a BBC
> children's
> > > television series notable?
> >
> > If only Wikipedia didn't have such a stupid notion as "notable" which
> > basically translates as either writing as much as we can possible find
> > to substantiate about someone, or writing nothing at all. A more
> > sensible publication would probably write a paragraph or so about the
> > actor with very basic details like what shows they'd appeared on and
> > any future projects they were known to be interested in.
>
> If the small-time actor is mentioned in referencable publications and
> has an editor who's willing to write a considerable article about
> them, then this is something we should aim to achieve.
>
> I don't understand why it wouldn't be sensible to write a lengthy,
> sourced article (ignoring gossip and such) about such an actor.
>
> --
> Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)


Of course, this was an example to show Fred Bauder that there are people who
don't have biographies written about them, but still have enough information
available to write an article by using information from various sources.

Mgm


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