We could just as easily extend this a little and say that the
University of Maryland is a relatively minor figure among American
Universities, or Maryland among American States.
And there will be information on every one of them available to the
undergraduates as long as the university maintains a library. It may
be hard to find some of it outside UMd until it is all online, but the
library is already there.
Saying all university presidents are notable is just the first step
towards a sane policy, and one which has i think been taken--saying
all research university full professors are notable has also been
consistently maintained at AfD. There are some things about which
consensus does form in a sensible direction.
And the very idea of an encyclopedia--the basic conception underlying
the whole notion--is to be complete.
DGG
On 6/11/07, The Mangoe <the.mangoe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/11/07, Eugene van der Pijll
<eugene(a)vanderpijll.nl> wrote:
Have you at the very least changed the link to
[[Charles Bishop (University of Maryland)|]] ?
I didn't make such a link,
because I don't think there should be such
an article. Bishop was a minor figure in UMCP history and I'm not
going to be the one to suggest that he should have an article.
I presume some completionist undergraduate at
UMCP will eventually stub out the rest, but more likely than not
they'll stay that way forever because there simply isn't any other
information to be had. And I dunno, if those article show up for AfD a
bunch of people are going to say that all university presidents are
notable as such, and if anyone goes to the UMCP website and sees that
there's no information on them, and says so, someone else will tell
them to go look elsewhere. But it's unlikely anyone will look
elsewhere.
--
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.