2009/2/16 Phil Nash <pn007a2...@blueyonder.co.uk>: > I think the downside might be exactly what is covered by [[WP:NOT]] at > present, and especially [[WP:NOR]]; I've seen several articles that were > extremely worthy as research projects, but offended against those policies, > and [[WP:SYNTH]] in particular. I hated to nominate for deletion, but it had > to be done, within existing policy. I hoped we would not lose those > obviously committed and competent editors. The problem is that relaxing > [[WP:NOR]] and [[WP:SYNTH]], if not done with extreme care, opens the > floodgates to all sorts of abuse, and that is why I don't think it should > happen.
I think we can relax the notability guidelines without relaxing our fundamental policies. We could change "multiple independent non-trivial sources" to "one independent non-trivial source" (I'm not sure that would allow for many additional articles, but you get the idea). _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
