[Wikipedia-l] Biographies of unimportant people (was: "In memoriam")

[The Cunctator]

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 16:53, Axel Boldt wrote:
> 
> --- Imran Ghory <ImranG at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > On 25 Sep 2002, at 19:53, Axel Boldt wrote:
> > 
> > >A biography of
> > > an unimportant person is interesting/useful to almost no one,
> > > therefore it doesn't belong either.
> > 
> > How do you measure the importance of someone ?
> 
> Like I just did: a person is unimportant if his or her biography
> is interesting/useful to almost no one.

What's your quantifiable metrics of "interesting", "useful", and "almost
no one"?