[WikiEN-l] Re: Notability meta-guidelines

Wed Jan 18 17:50:19 UTC 2006

"Steve Bennett" <stevage at gmail.com> wrote in 
message news:f1c3529e0601180739x58cee2bai8424268f8cd0eb30 at mail.gmail.com...
[snip]
> 1) A subject should not become *more notable* by appearing in
> Wikipedia.  {The vanity principle}

Just so long as you do not confuse "notable" with "widely known".

If there are only four people in the world who can perform a particularly 
crufty surgical procedure, then I would say that all four of them would 
count as "notable".

However they might not be "widely known" outside the community of surgeons 
and related practitioners.

In this kind of case, it is the duty of Wikipedia to ensure that these 
people are made **more** widely-known, because they are sufficiently notable 
to deserve it.

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 