[Wikipedia-l] Biographies of unimportant people (was: "In memoriam")

Thu Sep 26 23:13:57 UTC 2002

On 26 Sep 2002, at 13:53, Axel Boldt wrote:

> 
> --- Imran Ghory <ImranG at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > On 25 Sep 2002, at 19:53, Axel Boldt wrote:
> > 
> > >A biography of
> > > an unimportant person is interesting/useful to almost no one,
> > > therefore it doesn't belong either.
> > 
> > How do you measure the importance of someone ?
> 
> Like I just did: a person is unimportant if his or her biography
> is interesting/useful to almost no one.

What is "almost no one", one, two, ten, a hundred people ?

Should we get rid of any articles which get less than X hits a year 
as they're "interesting/useful to almost no one" ?

Imran