[WikiEN-l] Schools, notability, inclusionism, deletionism, etc.

Sun Sep 24 13:10:15 UTC 2006

On 24/09/06, Stephen Streater <sbstreater at mac.com> wrote:

> Some of us are working on a new notability guideline:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOTABILITY

Please be very aware that idiots *will* take it and use it as a stick
to hit others with. Look at the disaster WP:RS is turning into,
whether marked "guideline" or not.

Have you reviewed the history of other notability guidelines? Why did
they fail? If you can't answer that, you need to be able to.

- d.