[WikiEN-l] So you think you can be a Wikipedia article

Sun Jul 23 04:45:48 UTC 2006

On 7/22/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, notability is not policy, merely a (very argued-about) guideline
> that not everybody believes in anyway.
>
> With that out of the way, I can't see any reason why the short amount
> of verifiable information about these contestants can't be inside the
> article for this season's So You Think You Can Dance, or inside [[So
> You Think You Can Dance 2006 contestants]], with redirects (or
> disambiguations) from the individual's names to sections within it.  I
> think that these people are not sufficiently interesting outside the
> context of the competition, and that having seperate articles for them
> merely encourages unsourced, unverifiable cruft.
>
> -Matt

Actually there's nothing wrong with this category, assuming that the people
in the category are notable enough to have Wikipedia articles.  It's
probably a useful tool to find articles to {{prod}} or {{afd}} ;)