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> The notability requirement is not there to keep out the plebs, it's there to keep the information on Wikipedia accurate. Then it should be a verifiablity req

• mjn 12y ago
  In my opinion, the verifiability requirement has mostly (though not 100%) superseded the notability requirement on Wikipedia over the past ~5 years. Nowadays it's close to necessary and sufficient for something to have good third-party sources: if something has good sources it's usually presumed notable because it clearly has been noted by others (e.g. by scholars, if the sources are scholarly sources), while if something doesn't have good sources, then whether it's notable or not is moot because there's no basis for writing a Wikipedia article on it anyway. I wrote a longer-winded version of this argument a while ago: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/wikipedia_notability_verifiability.html http://www.kmjn.org/notes/wikipedia_notability_verifiability...