[WikiEN-l] (no subject)

[Rob Smith]

On 1/12/07, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.



Somethig like this should apply to RfC's as well; for example when an RfC on
an historical subject is hung out in politics to invite input from partisan
users with no understanding of the issues involved.

Rob Smith
aka nobs