[WikiEN-l] Notability in Wikipedia
Delirium
delirium at hackish.org
Sat May 2 01:26:27 UTC 2009
David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/4/27 <WJhonson at aol.com>:
>
>
>> I'm not saying that people should delete based on Google results in the
>> first place. In fact I am the one who put that note on historical subjects
>> into the policy in the first place a few years back. Subjects who are not
>> necessarily currently talked-up might have been quite the popular rage back in
>> 1920 or 1920 or 1420, and should not be deleted based on current Google
>> searches.
>>
>
>
> I must say, the blindness of some AFD participants to anything that
> happened before 1995 can be more than a little annoying ...
>
I haven't found this to be a big problem in practice, but maybe I've
been lucky? A handful of my edge-case biographies of 19th-century
individuals have been nominated for AfD, but all survived. One was a
translation from a famous 19th-century German encyclopedia (ADB), and
nobody could find a single post-1900 source on the man, but it was kept
nonetheless, with the justification that having once been included in
ADB is sufficient to automatically establish notability. A pleasantly
surprising result.
-Mark
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