Lee Pilich wrote:
Alex Rosen wrote:
So if something doesn't have to notable to be
in Wikipedia, then would
an article on every single elementary school in the world be OK? How
about every single person in the world?
As far as I'm concerned, articles on any person and on any school are
fine *if* we can verify the information in those articles. We can
probably argue about exactly what is meant by "verifiable" for a
looong time (see [[Wikipedia:Verifiabilty]] for some thoughts), but I
think that by most standards, it would mean that we wouldn't have
articles on most of the people in the world. Requiring things to be
verifiable cuts a heck of a lot of stuff out.
I don't think it would cut nearly enough out. For example, a short
article listing my place of birth, high school attended, and university
attended is easily verifiable through publically available records.
However, it doesn't belong in Wikipedia.
-Mark