[Wikipedia-l] Entries for deletion.... issues from the Third World

[Andre Engels]

2007/1/9, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>:
>
> Frederick Noronha wrote:
>
> > Maybe we should use some discernment, instead of the mechanical rule
> > of 'number of links' on Google or where-ever.
>
> The question if a topic is notable enough to deserve an entry, can
> only be answered with "yes" or "no", and this is pretty much
> "mechanical", so you cannot really escape the mechanics.


Do I understand correctly that you are saying that yes/no questions can only
be answered mechanically? I strongly disagree. Of course you can escape the
mechanics, doing it mechanically might make things somewhat easier, but
surely Wikipedia editors are able to judge non-quantified arguments on their
merits.

This kind of reasoning is not limited to the English Wikipedia or
> the cities of India, but can be used in the Ukrainian Wikipedia
> for Hungarian composers with more than 3 symphonies or whatever.
> I don't know if 50,000 inhabitants or 3 symphonies are good limits
> for notability, but if you can make such a claim and back it up,
> then people should be less likely to attack you.  At least they
> will understand that you are not totally clueless or naked.


I guess I should not go into the examples, but in this case my opinion is
that 50,000 would be too high a limit,  I myself would be thinking of 2,000
or 5,000. 3 symphonies sounds like a bad limit because notability of a
classical composer in my opinion should not be judged by their output, but
by the question how often and by whom their work is played.


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