[Wikipedia-l] Wiki about every person in the world

Sun Nov 20 17:39:10 UTC 2005

Sam Korn wrote:

>On 11/19/05, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>We are actually trying to draw a line on it.wikipedia. Clearly, I am not an
>>encyclopedic entry, while George Bush is. Drawing a line is not easy, but in
>>most cases it is easy to decide if somebody is above or under the line.
>>Borderline cases are discussed, that helps to draw the line.
>>Cruccone
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>My criterion is simple: is there enough independantly verifiable
>information available on the person in order to make an article?  If
>there is, then the subject is notable.  If there isn't, the subject
>isn't notable.
>
>This is also what Wikipedia policy says.
>
Great!  I'm glad to see that I can include a biography of Erwin G. Ward 
of South Weymouth, MA.  He was a stamp collector whose obituary appeared 
in the "American Philatelist" for December, 1920. :-)

Ec