Hi Asaf, Thanks for your thoughtful input as usual.
Wikipedia community is the community of contributors to Wikipedia.[1] When someone says "The Wikipedia community will decide", I tend to interpret this as a decision by group of Wikipedians since a single person cannot refer to himself/herself as a community. If what Flo meant by "Wikipedia community " is "someone from the community", that's fine. Regards, Isaac https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_community On Oct 2, 2017 6:45 PM, "Asaf Bartov" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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