[WikiEN-l] And now for a word on trivial BLPs

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Bryan Derksen wrote:
> Tony Sidaway wrote:
>> No what I was saying (and I thought it was pretty obvious) is that
>> this whole "notability fixed" thing is trivially false.  Pepys is the
>> counter-example: a fellow more known now for something that most
>> eigheenth century scholars were unaware of, or which they thought
>> (believing the diaries to be in a private code) would be forever
>> inaccessible.
> 
> I always understood the guideline to mean that notability was
> "permanent" in the sense that once someone or something has become
> notable they can't become non-notable again. So Pepys was non-notable
> during his lifetime, later _became_ notable once his diaries became a
> significant source of historical information, and now he will never
> become non-notable again. It's a one-way street to notability.
> 
> I find this quite reasonable since the fact that someone or something
> was notable at one time is itself a notable thing.
> 
> 
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Tonight's weather forecast and yesterday's lotter numbers are notable 
today. Indeed I could give you "multiple non-trivial sources" for both.

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