User:TZM/notability

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[edit] My essay about notability

Unlike some other Wikipedians, I think that in an encyclopedia everything existing (including fictional things or something like world peace or Perpetuum Mobile should be listed.

Wikipedia is not a space-limited paper encyclopedia. Yeah, might be true that due to paper limits, paper encyclopedias had to limit their number of articles. But an online encyclopedia can't be paper-limited, but maybe byte-limited, however, hard disks aren't that expensive ...

Also Wikipedia's goal was always to collect all human knowledge. This includes that tramway stop in Vienna, Austria.

Everything is notable, or notability is always mutual (what may be tagged with {{db-band}}, could be great information about a non-notable band for a reader). Only badly written articles, patent nonsense, dictionary articles or copyvios should be deleted. Of course, this applies to real articles only. Senseless disambiguation pages, lists, categories, templates, project pages and similar things may be deleted. I also think that news articles shouldn't come into Wikipedia, see WP:NOT.

And it neither means anything needs an own article. If one can't write much about a subject, it can be merged like in Banned episodes of Pokémon.

Before deleting an article, you must try to improve it as much as you can. I think "non-notable" is not a reason for deletion, proposed deletion or speedy deletion


[edit] See also

[edit] German-language Wikipedia (much more strict notability criteria

[edit] English-language Wikipedia

[edit] Wikimedia Meta-Wiki

This is a translation of de:Benutzer:TZM/Relevanz.
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