[Wikipedia-l] Entries for deletion.... Notability

[James Hare]

Indeed.

Singaporean Pop Idol. Notable to Mailer Diablo. Unimportant to me.

Perhaps people who judge notability should have a background in that field?

On 1/10/07, Ian Tresman <it at knowledge.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Notability means different things to different people. What I find
> notable, someone else won't and vice versa.
>
> What's important, it that the article is written well.
>
> Wikipedia's strength is that it has more articles than any other
> encyclopedia. It also has "Good article status" and "Featured article
> status" to further indicate quality.
>
> As long as someone finds a subject notable, I'm not going to disagree
> with them, and as long as it conforms to WP:V, WP:RS, WP:NPOV, then
> that should be fine with everyone.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian Tresman
>    33 Reginald Street, Derby  DE23 8FR
>    Tel: 01332 265566. email: it at knowledge.co.uk
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