[WikiEN-l] Notability and Fiction

[Surreptitiousness]

As a result of the recent RFC on Notability and Fiction, I've drafted an 
essay at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_and_fiction.  
Feel free to edit and engage to reach a consensus on the issue, so that 
the current fractured state of play might be encouraged to heal itself. 
But please don't protect "positions".  We don;t need to restate [[WP:V]] 
for the umpteenth time, we already have it.  We just need to say that 
there are bad articles and there are good articles, and mainly bad 
articles are bad due to style rather than substance. When there's no 
substance, it is usually easy to see and such articles with regards 
fiction are not a "problem" for notability to "cure", they are a 
"problem" which is already "cured" by a number of other policies. 
Notability on Wikipedia has become too restricting and from my view it 
is time to roll it back and let each subject area define its own 
guidance, because we don't have a one size fits all approach, as evinced 
by [[WP:BLP]].  Every subject area is afflicted by different issues, and 
the solutions to those issues also differ. If Wikipedia is to continue, 
it needs to recognise that fact, and would that we had the leadership to 
recognise, reflect and build accordingly. Otherwise, I fear Wikipedia 
will stagnate. The greatest asset Wikipedia has is adaptability.  That 
adaptability is in danger of becoming stifled.

User:Hiding