[WikiEN-l] On notability and speedies

Thu Sep 15 16:51:12 UTC 2005

Keith Old writes:

"After all, one of the reasons for Speedy Deletion is that an article has not
established notability of the subject."

No.  Lots of our articles don't *establish* notability, and they're not
speediable at all.  The A7 CSD is for articles that don't *assert*
notability.  If an article contains a (reasonably credible) claim of
notability, that is enough to take it out of the category.  The criterion
is somewhat elastic, but there is apparently some ongoing work to tighten
it, by providing illustrative examples or otherwise.  So if you write an
article "Bobby Moore, a player for West Ham, was the captain of the 1966
World Cup winning England football team", it stop far short of
establishing notability (no references) but it does undeniably *assert*
notability.