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

[Thomas Dalton]

On 24 March 2012 18:18, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wikinews suffers sufficient gatekeepers that it doesn't attract a
> froth of contributors the way Wikipedia does. It could do with some
> statistical and experimental loving from the Foundation, if anyone
> feels up to putting a proposal together. But trying to channel
> volunteers in this manner strikes me as a way to kill motivation
> rather than channel it.

My hope with this proposal was to encourage contributions to Wikinews.
I think one of the main reasons Wikinews has never been particularly
successful is because it is competing with Wikipedia's current events
coverage.