[WikiEN-l] COO story now in major media

[David Gerard]

On 21/12/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> > It's a pretty clear single-incident bio - [[WP:BLP1E]].

> Is it, though? What is the single-incident? The story breaking? In
> which case, we end up with news coverage being the story rather than
> covering the story, and everything goes haywire (we only have primary
> sources, for a start, which suggests it's not notable). If she's
> notable, it's for a series of crimes and a spell as COO of WMF, not
> for a single incident, thus she should get her own article, rather
> than there being an article on the story.
> Viewed in that light, I'd say she probably isn't notable. Consider the
> "Will anyone care in X amount of time?" approach - I'd say the answer
> is "no" for quite small values of X (6 months, or so).


It would belong in [[Wikimedia Foundation]], then, as a notable
incident. If anyone cares down the track (they obviously care now).


- d.