> The fact that it's at some point impossible to disambiguate information. If you have 50.000 pages of everyone's cat it'd be borderline impossible to find gene

> The fact that it's at some point impossible to disambiguate information. If you have 50.000 pages of everyone's cat it'd be borderline impossible to find general information that is relevant to a public audience. It's the same reason I can't go to the public library and put random writings of me on a shelf, there needs to be a level of curation so that the content isn't being bogged down by what is mostly going to be noise. If this were true, there would be the same problem with the internet, since we don't have notability limitations for who can build a webpage. But the fact is, search is a pretty well-developed field. A very simple metric is simply: how many places is this linked from. These can come up higher in search results, be prioritized higher in disambiguation pages, etc. Start with that, and refine from there. Notability is a sorting problem, not a filtering problem. > The article brings up a page for each pokemon say, and if you have countless of pokemon all with similar names to other real-world stuff everyone who doesn't care about the pokemon will have to wade through links and pages of irrelevant content, it'd quickly turn into a huge digital garbage dump. You're wrong in your own examples. Sorry buddy, but if someone searches for "Bulbasaur", is there some more notable thing you think they are looking for besides the Pokemon? > Also not to mention that Wikipedia wants to provide a reasonable level of accuracy and factfulness, and nobody can independently verify personal content or topics so niche that only one person knows what's going on. Which is a great case for a verifiability guideline, not a notability guideline. > I don't know why someone really would want wikipedia to turn into a website for in-universe fiction or people's personal content. "Must be nonfiction", "must be verifiable", etc. are all different requirements from "must be notable".