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Just because Clinton's high school band "Three Blind Mice" doesn't get a Wikipedia article, it doesn't mean the band is excluded from Wikipedia. The band could still appear in Clinton's article in his high school education section. OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 02:11, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
RogDel et al - I’ve been thinking about this topic a bit lately - what are other forms of notability that would not compromise the integrity of an encyclopedia? They’re slightly different than yours but would be curious as to your thoughts. These are rough ideas minus implementation details. I’m hoping for responses that are more constructive than captious.
(1) Something that can be proven true in something like Coq or an equivalent that has a non-trivial implication. This meshes well with WP:V. (2) Notability established by a proof-of-work threshold with known data lineage tied to a verifiable identity.
Expanding on point (2) - I believe what many people object to is the perception of a gate keeping function of peer-reviewed journals and green WP:RSPSOURCES. This is a fair criticism because we know who is running these periodicals and they’re mammals like the rest of us. They are sometimes wrong, sometimes biased, not always meritocratic and most importantly they have incentives to downplay, obfuscate and ignore these failings for reasons of finance and prestige in competitive markets.
There’s something like a craving for recognition of a thing when those two kinds of institutions won’t cover that thing.
With a hypothetical system implementing (2) you would be able to verify a number of people who lend their real world identity to a thing with something like KYC where we could say we have a nearly perfect way of verifying that a real person is behind an attestation of notability. Then that person would have to complete some kind of proof-of-work scenario to demonstrate that they put a lot of work and thought in to this attestation of a thing’s notability (this could be something like a unique essay with proven data provenance (lineage). Then we pick a magic number, maybe say Dunbar’s number (150) as a threshold and if something meets that we consider it notable. The proof-of-work/KYC/provenance system will make it verifiable.
What do you think? - Scarpy ( talk) 03:54, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
I know, you want an article on CTMU.I wouldn't have pegged you for someone who believes in telepathy.
Hi, I read through the essay in its current form and I must say I disagree with it. This perhaps represents a difference of opinion about Wikipedia's ultimate purpose. Nonetheless, I think that merely being noticed by reliable sources should not be enough. Not all human knowledge necessarily belongs here and while notability is deeply flawed, and the standard for what counts as significant coverage is far from sufficiently clear in my view, we should not ditch the baby with the bath water. My main issue with the standard of having been noticed is that we would end up with a large amount of articles that leave readers none the wiser about topics. For example, with a company that has had a hand in notable events or is associated with notable people, but has no significant coverage of its own, all that could be written about it is a rehashing of what exists (or should exist) in those other articles. Mention of the company should then exist in those articles, not as a standalone article.
Re the issue of "significant coverage" being a relative matter, I agree that that is an issue, particularly as the standard for what is significant and what is trivial is not as clear as it should be for something so central as this. Nonetheless, just because it is relative it doesn't mean it is useless. If all we can say about a topic, like a biography, is a single paragraph relating to some other thing that topic should be covered in its respective article. A line has to be drawn somewhere, else all snippets of human knowledge would inside Wikipedia's remit and that is ultimately counter-productive because part of Wikipedia's purpose is not merely to be a repository of knowledge but to organise it in a useful and accessible way and being flooded by trivial articles would undermine this necessary process of organising and compiling knowledge in a useful manner. Jtrrs0 ( talk) 13:55, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
The user who made this hasn't been active since 2015, and the contributions since then have been minor. This essay is plainly at odds with a core policy, WP:Notability. While contrary opinions are certainly welcome, this really seems more appropriate as a user-space idea than a full Wikipedia-space essay. Normally, I'd consider the fact that this essay is dead letter as entirely obvious, but a user was unironically bringing this essay up as a good idea in the WP:DISCORD, so maybe it should be more clear that this isn't a real policy. Any objections to a bold user-fication of this page to User:RogDel/Significant coverage not required ? SnowFire ( talk) 00:59, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
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Just because Clinton's high school band "Three Blind Mice" doesn't get a Wikipedia article, it doesn't mean the band is excluded from Wikipedia. The band could still appear in Clinton's article in his high school education section. OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 02:11, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
RogDel et al - I’ve been thinking about this topic a bit lately - what are other forms of notability that would not compromise the integrity of an encyclopedia? They’re slightly different than yours but would be curious as to your thoughts. These are rough ideas minus implementation details. I’m hoping for responses that are more constructive than captious.
(1) Something that can be proven true in something like Coq or an equivalent that has a non-trivial implication. This meshes well with WP:V. (2) Notability established by a proof-of-work threshold with known data lineage tied to a verifiable identity.
Expanding on point (2) - I believe what many people object to is the perception of a gate keeping function of peer-reviewed journals and green WP:RSPSOURCES. This is a fair criticism because we know who is running these periodicals and they’re mammals like the rest of us. They are sometimes wrong, sometimes biased, not always meritocratic and most importantly they have incentives to downplay, obfuscate and ignore these failings for reasons of finance and prestige in competitive markets.
There’s something like a craving for recognition of a thing when those two kinds of institutions won’t cover that thing.
With a hypothetical system implementing (2) you would be able to verify a number of people who lend their real world identity to a thing with something like KYC where we could say we have a nearly perfect way of verifying that a real person is behind an attestation of notability. Then that person would have to complete some kind of proof-of-work scenario to demonstrate that they put a lot of work and thought in to this attestation of a thing’s notability (this could be something like a unique essay with proven data provenance (lineage). Then we pick a magic number, maybe say Dunbar’s number (150) as a threshold and if something meets that we consider it notable. The proof-of-work/KYC/provenance system will make it verifiable.
What do you think? - Scarpy ( talk) 03:54, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
I know, you want an article on CTMU.I wouldn't have pegged you for someone who believes in telepathy.
Hi, I read through the essay in its current form and I must say I disagree with it. This perhaps represents a difference of opinion about Wikipedia's ultimate purpose. Nonetheless, I think that merely being noticed by reliable sources should not be enough. Not all human knowledge necessarily belongs here and while notability is deeply flawed, and the standard for what counts as significant coverage is far from sufficiently clear in my view, we should not ditch the baby with the bath water. My main issue with the standard of having been noticed is that we would end up with a large amount of articles that leave readers none the wiser about topics. For example, with a company that has had a hand in notable events or is associated with notable people, but has no significant coverage of its own, all that could be written about it is a rehashing of what exists (or should exist) in those other articles. Mention of the company should then exist in those articles, not as a standalone article.
Re the issue of "significant coverage" being a relative matter, I agree that that is an issue, particularly as the standard for what is significant and what is trivial is not as clear as it should be for something so central as this. Nonetheless, just because it is relative it doesn't mean it is useless. If all we can say about a topic, like a biography, is a single paragraph relating to some other thing that topic should be covered in its respective article. A line has to be drawn somewhere, else all snippets of human knowledge would inside Wikipedia's remit and that is ultimately counter-productive because part of Wikipedia's purpose is not merely to be a repository of knowledge but to organise it in a useful and accessible way and being flooded by trivial articles would undermine this necessary process of organising and compiling knowledge in a useful manner. Jtrrs0 ( talk) 13:55, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
The user who made this hasn't been active since 2015, and the contributions since then have been minor. This essay is plainly at odds with a core policy, WP:Notability. While contrary opinions are certainly welcome, this really seems more appropriate as a user-space idea than a full Wikipedia-space essay. Normally, I'd consider the fact that this essay is dead letter as entirely obvious, but a user was unironically bringing this essay up as a good idea in the WP:DISCORD, so maybe it should be more clear that this isn't a real policy. Any objections to a bold user-fication of this page to User:RogDel/Significant coverage not required ? SnowFire ( talk) 00:59, 4 June 2023 (UTC)