[WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

[David Gerard]

On 23 March 2012 17:10, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:

> For Leon Mestel, the qualifying sources would be his entry in Who's
> Who and in Debrett's People of Today. Those are UK-specific sources.
> What would the equivalent be in the USA?


Who's Who might say "this guy is notable", but the actual content is
completely self-sourced. It's effectively a sponsored blog entry.

This still looks way like you're saying "We must do something, this is
something, therefore we must do this." And that doesn't make a bad
idea (which this really strongly resembles) into a good one, at all.


- d.