[WikiEN-l] My favorite Wikipedia article ever

[Charlotte Webb]

On 7/7/07, Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> We need to have a notability set of criteria that decides whether a
> topic is, well, notable, i.e important enough to have an article if there
> are sources, or not notable so it does not have an article even if
> there are sources.

There will always be exceptions on both sides of the line, no matter
how complexly gerrymandered it becomes. Even if it were possible to
create a picture-perfect and binding rubric of "notability", any time
and energy invested such a task would be better spent elsewhere.

—C.W.