On 8 April 2011 15:17, Charles Matthews <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Notability" has always been a broken and widely-misunderstood aspect of
> enWP. My impression is that deWP, for example, sets the bar higher, and
> has fewer "problems": in a word, deletionism can work well enough.
> Comprehensiveness is of course about total content, while notability is
> about topics you recognise. "Salience" is the neglected concept, which
> is relative to topic.


I am told anecdotally that many native speakers of German who also
speak good English prefer en:wp for its comprehensiveness.

This may be an example of what we think we should be about conflicting
with what readers actually want and expect.


- d.

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