[Wikipedia-l] Limits to the non-paperiness of Wikipedia?

[Jimmy Wales]

Oliver Pereira wrote:
> As I interpret it, 
> it's saying that pretty much any subject could be covered - within the
> usual constraints of NPOV and verifiability, of course.
> 
> So we could include people and events that have not had significant impact
> on a global or even a national level, but which maybe only affected a
> small group of people. As long as there is some coverage in published
> sources, somewhere, we could use that to make an article on the subject.

That sounds about right to me.  For example, the current Mayor of
Athens, Georgia, U.S.  I doubt if we have an article about that
person, but I see no reason why we shouldn't.

I'm surprised we haven't had more fights about this sort of thing, but
'verifiability' seems to do a pretty good job of weeding out the
really badly obscure.

--Jimbo