[WikiEN-l] Point me to discussions with newcomers about notability?

2011-10-08 Thread Johan Jönsson
Hey list, do you remember any particular discussions about articles (on the talk page, or AfD if enough newcomers found their way there) on English Wikipedia where you could see that new editors/outsiders didn't agree with the concept of notability, or how notability is interpreted among (most)

Re: [WikiEN-l] Point me to discussions with newcomers about notability?

2011-10-08 Thread Michel Vuijlsteke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogscast springs to mind. A million followers on Youtube, arguably one of the factors in making Minecraft as popular as it is today, deleted time after time. Michel Vuijlsteke On 9 October 2011 01:11, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.comwrote: One good

Re: [WikiEN-l] Point me to discussions with newcomers about notability?

2011-10-08 Thread Michel Vuijlsteke
Here's a couple of discussions. In the very loosest sense of the term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_Yogscast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_deletion/The_Yogscast

Re: [WikiEN-l] Point me to discussions with newcomers about notability?

2011-10-08 Thread Michel Vuijlsteke
Sorry to go on about this, but it really defies belief, sometimes, when you go into these things. I picked Yogscast because I'd just been watching an episode with my wife *and* I was just about 100% sure there wouldn't be an article on Wikipedia about them. What are you to make of an exchange