2009/9/22 Charles Matthews <[email protected]>: >> I seem to recall that in the notability policy there is also scope for >> comprehensiveness. That is, if a certain number of a given category of >> entities is denoted "notable", then we include articles about *all* of >> them, for comprehensiveness.
(...) > OK, but take the argument that there aren't so many ski runs in > Australia, and transfer it to some micro-sub-genre of heavy metal: > "There just aren't so many perishthrashglam bands here, so we think it's > just fine to have articles on all of them". Doesn't look so good. I think we can easily distinguish, though; the notability-by-association thing really needs most of the set to be desirable topics for articles (*most* ski runs are interesting, or at least let us assume they are for this discussion!) and for that set to be well-defined (you can always tell if a ski run is in Australia or not). The perishthrashglam bands are both a) generally uninteresting, and b) ill-defined; we won't have articles on most bands defined as part of that genre, and we won't ever be able to say "the genre consists solely of these seventy-nine bands and no-one else". -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
