On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 8:31 PM Isaac Olatunde <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Neither the "Wikipedia community " nor the "Nigerian community" is to
> decide whether they merit a Wikipedia page or not. One does not become a
> subject of a Wikipedia article by creating a video for WMF. If they had
> been the subject of multiple independent reliable sources, someone with no
> conflict of interest will probably write about them and this has nothing to
> do with the Wikipedia community or the Nigerian community.
>
That's rather pointlessly argumentative, Isaac, and I am responding just to
set the record straight for anyone reading with less experience who might
be getting the wrong idea:
that "someone" you mention who could write an article if there are good
sources *would* be from the Wikipedia community, and that is what Florence
meant. It *is* accurate to say that the notability would be determined by
the community.
It is also true that the determining of notability would not necessarily
happen now: it happens when someone decides the topic is notable and writes
about it, and again whenever someone else decides to content the notability
and start a discussion. But until someone decides the topic is notable and
writes an article, the question is undecided.
A.
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