On 12/29/08, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > In many ways, the most effective solution would be a hard-and-bright > line like the DNB uses - no-one who is alive, end of story, and we > could deal with living people as tangential notes in their work. But > it certainly wouldn't be popular!
How many sentences can be written about the late Tommy Burks without including the non-late Byron (Low Tax) Looper as a more-than-tangential note? Truth be told I think "notability" arguments would favor a merge in the opposite direction. > I remember talk of ja.wp having a more hardline definition of > notability, roughly defined as "is a public figure", thus neatly > eliding anyone who isn't Pretty Damn Famous - any idea if they still > hold to that and if so how it works out? The Japanese definition of "notability" seems to be a rough translation of ours (and I don't mean "super karate monkey death car"-rough either): http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:特筆性 —C.W. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
