[WikiEN-l] The Economist on "notability"

[Andrew Gray]

On 10/03/2008, Angus McLellan <angusmclellan at gmail.com> wrote:
>  If you write about some dead C19th official, you'll likely be using a
>  book as a source for the article so verifiability is no problem,
>  [...] As for nobody objecting, they might
>  if the subject is a baronet, or if the book you used wasn't in
>  English, or worse yet not in the Latin alphabet, and there are no
>  ghits.

One of the most endearing comments I have found on an AFD was along
the lines of "wow, this guy died two centuries ago and even so he has
four actual google hits, he must have some notability"

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk