Gregory Maxwell wrote:
[...] does the moniker 'encyclopedia' indicate that we are generally
using a criteria of notability to decide to include things.
The crux of the problem is that "notability" is a stubbornly
subjective concept. For instance, we have articles on extremely
obscure US Navy destroyers and submarines, with crews of under 100
and with only a couple of years in service, during peacetime, and
then scrapped - yet these are never challenged, while a century-old
high school with 3,000 students is likely to end up on VfD. So what
exactly is it that makes one topic "notable", and another not?
In a way, the old print encyclopedias had it easier - the
publisher could only afford to spend M months producing N
volumes, so one started at "most important" and went down
until the available space and time was used up.
Stan