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

[Andreas Kolbe]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 24 March 2012 17:51, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You're not going to get that through for general events (natural
> > disasters or revolutions), because they've long been heralded as one
> > of en:wp's great strengths.
>
> But they *should* be one of Wikinews' greatest strengths, not
> Wikipedia's. I know it isn't likely to get adopted, which is why I
> never bother proposing it, but I still think it would be a good idea.



The Wikipedia coverage of Japan last year was indeed excellent. Wikinews
could transclude Wikipedia articles on developing news stories like that.

A.