Surreptitiousness wrote: > As a result of the recent RFC on Notability and Fiction, I've drafted an > essay at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_and_fiction. > Feel free to edit and engage to reach a consensus on the issue, so that > the current fractured state of play might be encouraged to heal itself. > But please don't protect "positions". We don;t need to restate [[WP:V]] > for the umpteenth time, we already have it. We just need to say that > there are bad articles and there are good articles, and mainly bad > articles are bad due to style rather than substance. When there's no > substance, it is usually easy to see and such articles with regards > fiction are not a "problem" for notability to "cure", they are a > "problem" which is already "cured" by a number of other policies. > Notability on Wikipedia has become too restricting and from my view it > is time to roll it back and let each subject area define its own > guidance, because we don't have a one size fits all approach, as evinced > by [[WP:BLP]]. Every subject area is afflicted by different issues, and > the solutions to those issues also differ. If Wikipedia is to continue, > it needs to recognise that fact, and would that we had the leadership to > recognise, reflect and build accordingly. Otherwise, I fear Wikipedia > will stagnate. The greatest asset Wikipedia has is adaptability. That > adaptability is in danger of becoming stifled. > > I don't really see what is going on there: but the essay seems to be saying that an article is acceptable if it meets fundamental content policy OR various other things, while I would think it acceptable if it meets fundamental content policy AND various things. Further, it doesn't do to mix up the status of an article and a topic. I wrote about this once (from a different angle): http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/149/charles-matthews-on-notability
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