[WikiEN-l] Notability etymology and history (was Re: WP:EPISODE)

[White Cat]

I think every Army personnel has a millitary record. That is both a reliable
and verifiable source.

The idea why we asked for secondary sources was to 'get rid of' articles on
insignificant garage bands and such. It is effective in doing that but isn't
really helping in the case of army personnel.

I think what we should seek with notability is significance not  the
availability of secondary sources. I mean if a 4 year old British girl goes
missing - we get articles on that. Her going missing although tragic is
probably less significant than an average TV episode on Star Trek, a series
that has been on the air for 37 years.

Now I am not asking for the deletion of any articles. I just think we need
to loosen up on notability based deletion significantly.

   -- White Cat

On Jan 1, 2008 11:23 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/01/2008, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, geni wrote:
> > > "Everything we can find a reliable source for" apparently violates
> BLP.
> >
> > How about "everything we can find a reliable source for, except when BLP
> is
> > involved"?
> >
>
> Hits issues with census records that get published. So that would
> include pretty much everyone who lived in the UK between 1841 and
> 1901. Then you have the various military records and the like.
>
>
> --
> geni
>
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