[WikiEN-l] "Reliable sources" guideline being treated as absolute policy

Wed Nov 29 21:13:03 UTC 2006

charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com wrote:
> Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote
> 
>> Absence of any claim to validity is what is at issue, and the
>> absence of any sources is one of the diagnostic factors.  very few
>> sourced articles are flagged for A7.
> 
> Oh, some are, you know. I had a worry about this yesterday, writing
> about a historian who was at the College de France. What if some admin
> has no idea whether this is an 'assertion of notability' or not? I'm not
> going to demean myself by adding 'the world-famous and prestigious
> academic institution in Paris'. But I do wonder whether some people
> would think I should, in order to be asserting a bit louder.

I've seen articles which declare their subject to be Emmy winning csd 
under A7, so I do wonder what constitutes an assertion of notability. 
It's almost to the point where we need to write our articles with the 
lead sentence blah is notable because they won an emmy rather than blah, 
a sfx company which won an emmy...

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