David Gerard wrote: > 2009/2/23 Ben Kovitz <bkov...@acm.org>: > > >>> I'm feeling pretty hot about salience at the moment. I'll take a crack >>> at a short essay tonight, incorporating what people have posted here. >>> > > >> Couldn't wait. List of topics is now here: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BenKovitz/Salience >> Thanks, Charles, for suggesting the word "salience". :) >> > > > There was some coverage of this matter in WP:BLP - that only > noteworthy details of a noteworthy person should be included. (The > hypothetical example given is the subject having had a messy divorce - > for a minorly notable physicist it's probably not relevant, for a > politician it may have been a widely reported scandal.) > > There was also something, once upon a time, at [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest]] - I was rather proud of "Wikipedia is not paper, and nor is it a Christmas newsletter". Stuff that resembles "vanity" may do so because it lacks salience. If it looks like newslettercruft it probably should go.
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