I don't know anything about Max and so I don't
know whether he
deserves an article, but the underlying question is important and
interesting: should anything that somebody bothered to write up be
accepted into Wikipedia, assuming it is NPOV?
I say no. The item has to be of relevance in some way...
I was inclined to agree, and I definitely think there are topics
that don't belong in an encyclopedia. But if we do implement some
approval system, especially a multiple-valued one such as I suggested
earlier today, I like Jimbo's suggestion of making relvance one of
the approval criteria. If that's done, then there's really little
reason not to allow reasonable articles on anything and anyone, and
simply consider them potential articles (which might get promoted
to "relevant" status if, say, Jimbo's mom gets elected to congress or
something).
One possible downside is that many of them might become orphans,
making database maintenance harder, because even if we allow such
articles, we should not necessarily allow links to them from relevant
articles.
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