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Sun Jan 7 16:43:09 UTC 2007


As an adjective:
"Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished."

As a noun:
"A person or thing of distinction"

Nobel laureates are, objectively speaking, "worthy of notice",
"remarkable", "distinguished" and "a person or thing of distinction".
As are heads of state, popes and winners of Wimbledon. These aren't
subjective opinions, these are *facts*. While there are many things
whose notability is entirely subjective, to suggest that there are no
categories of articles that aren't inherently notable is ludicrous.

The "philosophy" of wikipedia invites all sorts of debates about what
exactly notability is, and that can easily lead to these lines of
thinking. However, if the encyclopedia are to function at all, you
have to remain at some level pragmatic with your opinions. And the
fact is, both pragmatically and philosophically, there are categories
that are, objectively speaking, inherently notable.

--Oskar



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