Re: Notability and Fiction

> As a result of the recent RFC on Notability and Fiction, I've drafted an
> essay at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_and_fiction.  
> Feel free to edit and engage to reach a consensus on the issue, so that
> the current fractured state of play might be encouraged to heal itself.
> But please don't protect "positions".  We don;t need to restate [[WP:V]]
> for the umpteenth time, we already have it.  We just need to say that
> there are bad articles and there are good articles, and mainly bad
> articles are bad due to style rather than substance. When there's no
> substance, it is usually easy to see and such articles with regards
> fiction are not a "problem" for notability to "cure", they are a
> "problem" which is already "cured" by a number of other policies.
> Notability on Wikipedia has become too restricting and from my view it
> is time to roll it back and let each subject area define its own
> guidance, because we don't have a one size fits all approach, as evinced
> by [[WP:BLP]].  Every subject area is afflicted by different issues, and
> the solutions to those issues also differ. If Wikipedia is to continue,
> it needs to recognise that fact, and would that we had the leadership to
> recognise, reflect and build accordingly. Otherwise, I fear Wikipedia
> will stagnate. The greatest asset Wikipedia has is adaptability.  That
> adaptability is in danger of becoming stifled.
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