[WikiEN-l] Verifiability equating to notability

Thu May 4 16:57:25 UTC 2006

On 5/3/06, Gallagher Mark George <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>
> G'day Steve,
>
> > On 03/05/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> > > As for "an article with no claim to notability", I actually have no
> > > idea what that phrase means.
> >
> > An article has to establish the notability of its subject. If it
> > doesn't do that, it's subject to speedy deletion.
> >
> > ...I recite.
>
> No, it has to *assert* the notability of its subject.  When clearing up CAT:CSD I see a lot of speedy taggings where the tagger simply figured "sure, there's an assertion of notability there, but I don't think it's good enough".  Wrong.

How does an article go about asserting the notability of its subject? 
What would be an example of an article which asserts notability but
doesn't establish it?

Anthony