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

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

If we have this in place, cool to have a link...

My thinking is that a constructive and asymptotically approaching perfection
(hopefully as rapidly as humanly possible) way of doing a good bit of easing
of some of the tensions, would be to start compiling a list of criterions which
make someone absolutely 100% a chinch to need a wikipedia article about
them, no matter what. Not a list of "articles every wikipedia should have" or
anything like that, but a list of no-brainer wikipedia inclusion
criteria, and add
to the list of criteria as fast as possible. If something is
blindingly obvious it is
often very easy to get consensus, and a great deal can be achieved in a very
short amount of time.  Once the low hanging fruit have been collected, the
experience of working on that part of the task, often makes for a much more
congenial atmosphere to hew out some modus operandi for the cases where
things are not so clear as to be universally agreed upon by the editorship.

Here are some I can think of:

* Heads of states of all countries which are official full members of the
United Nations, after they have been admitted.
* Actresses/Actors who have star billing in a movie released by
Universal, MGM, 20th/21th Century, Lucasfilm, (... purposefully
leaving this list short to be absolutely
ironclad not to step into any point of contention or cheap shots ...)
* Nobel Prize winners.
* Fields Medal winners.
* Medal winners in the Modern Olympics in those sports that currently are part
of the Olympic Games, in either winter or summer games.
* Military leaders of the armed forces in any conflict between two countries who
are currently official full members of the United Nations.
* All Popes the Holy Roman Catholic Church currently recognizes as
having been valid
popes.
* All winners of the Booker Prize.
* All winners of the Turner Prize.
* All presenters of the Royal Society Christmas Lecture.
* ...
* ...
* ...

You get the idea...?

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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]