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

[Thomas Dalton]

On 27 March 2012 21:39, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

What would the benefit of that list be? Surely no-one is contesting
any of the BLPs that fit that description. If something is being
contested, then that means it isn't 100% obvious that the article
should exist. There's no point trying to fix the articles that aren't
broken.