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

[geni]

On 5/30/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps a good way of looking at this is whether people who don't know
> the subject personally, and who are generally knowledgeable in a
> relevant field, would tend to recognize the subject by name or only by
> description.

Doesn't work. The canal engineer James Green is notable by any
reasonable standard but it is possible to know a fair bit about UK
canals without knowing his name.

I've seen some very knowledgeable canal people admit that they had to
look up the [[Rolle Canal]] and didn't know the name.

Now you can get round both by redefining the relevant field (in this
case to canals of South West England rather than UK canals) but by
doing that you can make anything notable.





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geni