[WikiEN-l] Banality threshold

[geni]

On 01/10/2007, 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. What is an assertion of notability anyway?
> "Multiple independent reliable sources discuss Joe"?
>

More "we would expect Multiple independent reliable sources to discuss Joe"

So "joe was the congress being for district X between 1800 and 1809"
would probably be ok

"Joe was the defeated candidate in a local  council election in 1907" less so.



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geni