[WikiEN-l] The Economist on "notability"

[Ken Arromdee]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Ian Woollard wrote:
> Probably not. The thing is the wikipedia gets to be the top of google
> searches because it's generally fairly reliable. Likewise high up in
> the web rankings. If we start allowing less obviously notable things
> in, then the average quality can only go down, and eventually that
> will get reflected in how people treat us.

Only if "quality" is defined as "notability".