[WikiEN-l] The Economist on "notability"

[Philip Sandifer]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 4:52 PM, David Gerard wrote:

> On 06/03/2008, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 6, 2008, at 4:16 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>
>>> http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10789354
>>> Yes, (the Wikipedia jargon meaning of) notability is suitable  
>>> material
>>> for a business- and economics-oriented news magazine.[*]
>
>> I will repeat my conviction that our notability guidelines are the
>> biggest PR blunder we engage in.
>
>
> No, it's second to BLPs. Not third, however.
>

See, BLPs I think we have a nice and built-in defense on. By the time  
a BLP flap gains any play it's already fixed, so it ends up looking  
like we're ninjas who can fix problems instantly.

Notability is a case where press attention actually makes our handling  
of it worse, not better.

-Phil