On 1/12/07, James Hare messedrocker@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,
Define your terms
Finns determine notability of Finnish folk,
Um trying that with the countries around the balkans would be um interesting if you were at a safe distance.
the list goes on.
Not really since you have failed to define what the list was of. Countries? So only australians can talk about [[Ball's Pyramid]]. How are you defineing Countries anyway? Does scotland count? What about cornwall?
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).
Define qualified.
Hopefully, through this, closing AFDs will be based less on vote counting and more on evaluating the opinions of people.
Or you could try going to AFDs and commenting rather than voteing.