[WikiEN-l] (no subject)

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Hare [mailto:messedrocker at gmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:19 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] (no subject)
>
>I suggested something on another thread that stated that only people with
>background in a certain field should be qualified to judge notability.
>Chemists determine chemical notability, Finns determine notability of
>Finnish folk, the list goes on. Perhaps it's time to give AFD a good ol'
>reworking to separate the opinions of people who are qualified to speak
>about the subject's notability and outsider's opinions (both are important,
>but we can't put the fingers of clueless people on the red button).
>Hopefully, through this, closing AFDs will be based less on vote counting
>and more on evaluating the opinions of people.
>

That is the essence of the matter. People who don't recognize the significance of a subject having a veto power. Let's allow any article to remain that can garner support from 5 active users.

Fred