[WikiEN-l] Verifiability equating to notability

Thu May 4 06:38:05 UTC 2006

On 04/05/06, Gallagher Mark George
<m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
> > On 03/05/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> > > As for "an article with no claim to notability", I actually have no
> > > idea what that phrase means.
> >
> > An article has to establish the notability of its subject. If it
> > doesn't do that, it's subject to speedy deletion.
> >
> > ...I recite.
>
> No, it has to *assert* the notability of its subject.  When clearing up CAT:CSD I see a lot of speedy taggings where the tagger simply figured "sure, there's an assertion of notability there, but I don't think it's good enough".  Wrong.

I recited badly.

Steve