Wikipedia:Notability/Historical

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This Wikipedia page is currently inactive and is retained primarily for historical interest. Per Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines: "A historical page is any proposal for which consensus is unclear, where discussion has died out for whatever reason. Historical pages also include any process no longer in use, or any non-recent log of any process. Historical pages can be revived by advertising them. "
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[edit] History of "Notability" on Wikipedia

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[edit] Guideline proposals

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  • Wikipedia:Notability (ca. Sept. 2006 - present) — Attempts to definite "notability" objectively, as "having multiple, independent reliable sources"; may conflict with Wikipedia:Deletion policy's recognition of several more subjective subject-specific notability criteria as actionable for article deletion. Disposition: Active, but Disputed and under heavy revision as of mid-Dec. 2006.
  • "Notablity" arguments for and against deletion of articles (ca. May 2005 - Sep. 2006, with some additional activity) — Evolved into a pair of pro and con lists of arguments about the applicability of "notability" to the article deletion process; as such it retains value as a summary of the debate. Began as an attempt to define "notability" as "known outside of a narrow interest group" and (unsuccessfully) to distinguish "notability" from such ideas as "fame", "importance" or "notoriety". Disposition: Re-labeleld an Essay; remains active as a catalog of generalized arguments.
  • "Notability" changes needed to policies (ca. Oct. 2005 - Jan. 2006) — $NOTES. Disposition: Inactive and largely moot.
  • "Non-notability" (ca. June 2006 - Oct. 2006) — $NOTES. Disposition: Subject of a Request for Arbitration that deemed its status Rejected.
  • "Significance" a.k.a. "notability" (ca. March 2006 - May 2006) — $NOTES. Disposition: Inactive.
  • "Importance" (ca. Aug. 2004 - Aug. 2006) — $NOTES. Disposition: Inactive.
  • "Fame and importance" (ca. Jan. 2004 - Apr. 2006) — Began as a poll on whether notability criteria should be applied to Wikipedia, in which it is interesting that WikiMedia founder Jimbo Wales "[w]riting only as another user, not as The Jimbo" came out strongly against notability ideas in general. Poll results were: $RESULTS. Disposition: Inactive; most of the content was moved to its talk page because it turned into a discussion rather than a project/essay.

[edit] Subject-specific

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[edit] Essays

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  • Notability (ca. Oct. 2005 - June 2006) — $NOTES. Disposition: Inactive.

[edit] Historical notability concepts

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