[WikiEN-l] Banality threshold

[Anthony]

On 10/1/07, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
> >> Unclear on how [a subject becomes] "notable" in 60 minutes, unless of
> >> course it's being interviewed by Mike Wallace.[1]
> >
> > Lack of notability is *not* a speedy criterion. Lack of *assertion* of
> > notability is. You can assert notability in 60 minutes quite easily.
>
> Lack of assertion of notability is *not* a speedy criterion. Lack of
> assertion of *importance* is.

True.  But I thought lack of importance wasn't a valid reason for
nonspeedy deletion.  If so, that's pretty weird.

> What is an assertion of notability anyway?
> "Multiple independent reliable sources discuss Joe"?

What's an assertion of importance?  "Joe is important"?