On 24 March 2012 19:42, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I think it is important to remember why we're doing this. Our purpose >> isn't the judge people's notability. Our purpose is to provide useful >> information to people. It is clear from the page views they get that >> BLPs are useful to people. > > For low-level BLPs, a large proportion of the views may be Wikipedia editors.
Wikipedia editors count as readers too. >> As long as there are sufficient reliable >> sources to write more than a stub about someone, then I don't see why >> we shouldn't have an article about them. That is basically what the >> General Notability Guideline says. > > But what if that is all the reliable sources there are? And there are > no more and no more likely to be forthcoming? We are effectively > bequeathing to future generations a large number of stubby articles > that may never have any more sources written about them. Would you > like the job of (in 50 years time) sorting through these articles and > deciding which ones to try and ascertain year of death, and which ones > to expand from obituaries (if any exist), and which ones to delete > because they turned out to have sunk back into obscurity and only > dedicated research in primary documents (mostly not allowed under > WP:OR) will be of any use? I did say there needs to be enough to write *more than* a stub. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
