[WikiEN-l] Newbie and not-so-newbie biting

[Steve Bennett]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> The hill has "five rope tows and seven ski runs". Is this an
> encyclopedic topic? Not really.

Hmm. I've written about quite a few ski resorts (Broken River,
Craigieburn Valley, Fox Peak, Invincible Snowfields, Mount Dobson,
Mount Lyford, Porters, Rainbow, Snow Park, Mount Cheeseman, Temple
Basin, Mount Olympus Ski Area, Mount Potts, Roundhill Ski Area, Hanmer
Springs Ski Area, Mount Robert, Manganui), many of which are of the
size you describe or even smaller. In Australia and New Zealand, the
easiest rule is to just declare them all notable, because there are so
few. But if you did that in France, for example, you might have a
thousand or more.

But you question whether it's even encyclopedic. Apply the specialist
encyclopaedia test: would a specialist encyclopaedia about skiing in
North America list this ski area? It ought to. So the answer is yes.

Steve