[WikiEN-l] The Economist on "notability"

[Sage Ross]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  In other words, notability is about whether we are violating NPOV by
>  even mentioning it in the wikipedia. Are we giving it undue weight by
>  making an article about it?
>

Whoa!  Undue weight governs coverage within individual articles, and
has no bearing on whether a topic should have an article.  Wiki is not
paper, really.  (And even paper coverage greatly exceeds Wikipedia's
current coverage on almost any given topic, in aggregate.)

-ragesoss