On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoeks...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:23 PM, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 30 March 2010 18:16, David Goodman <dgoodma...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> If you want a higher level, 90% of the present members of the US >>>> National Academy of Engineering do not have articles. >>>> >>>> "More than one thing" seems a weird standard, in my opinion. >>> >>> To be expected it was invented by the BLP mob. See [[Wikipedia:BLP1E]]. >> >> To be fair, that refers to (or should refer to) a chronologically >> constrained (i.e. brief) event that propels someone to passing fame in >> a newspaper or online, not to a career where someone is notable for >> only one thing. > > I have always had a bit of a problem with blp1e. It is a sort of blp > thing combined with wp:notnews. I am generally off the opinion that if > the specific event is notable enough to warrant an article, and the > specific event is centered solely around that person, I believe the > article should be on that person, focusing on that event. Say, a > person wins some sort of trophy, lets call him John Doe, and the > trophy the awesome trophy. And say there is a lot of media attention > that John wins the trophy, enough to say there is more then passing > coverage, enough for [[WP:N]] in general. Should we have an article > [[John Doe winning the awesome trophy in 2010]]? Or should we just > have one on [[John Doe]]?
Didn't that evolve from the "murdered people" standard, where instead of having an article on a person who was murdered, you have an article on the crime? Not that such a standard was completely adopted, I don't think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murders That is what I mean, though a lot of that is tabloid-ish journalism. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
