On Mar 6, 2008, at 4:52 PM, David Gerard wrote:
On 06/03/2008, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@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