I have no idea if anyone will read this but if they do, I've been thinking. What are we doing on Wikipedia? We purport to be writing an encyclopaedia. But we don't want just anything in it. And the more we do, the more we feel we need to constrain what's on the site. Notability is my main bugbear. What does that mean? An extremely small (compared to total Wikipedia users) have established "consensus" to decide what is notable. These criteria are arbitrary though, in many users eyes, absolute. We fling snippets of rules at each other "this fails that criteria", "that's not a reliable source" but have we ever stopped to think that we're building it for a purpose? To be a useful reference tool. Have we stopped to find out if what we're doing IS useful? Do we reject things as being not notable that people really need to be able to find?
This troubles me.
We delete that which offends the great God of notability. Is he really there or did we create him?