 | This RFC has shown that there is no consensus for: abolishing WP:N or it's guideline status, renaming notability, promoting the GNG to policy, or making significant changes to the guidelines. Please don't hesitate to propose other changes, such as rewordings or less drastic changes of meaning, on WT:N |
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
- A request for adminship is open for discussion.
- Should a blackout be organized in protest of the Wikimedia Foundation's actions?
- Open letter regarding the Wikimedia Foundation's potential disclosure of editors' personal information.
- Should all administrators seeking resysop have made an administrative act within the previous five years?
- Extended-confirmed pending changes and preemptive protection in contentious topics
- Are portals encyclopedic, and are they appropriate redirect targets?
- Should recall petitions be limited to signatures only?
- Should the length of recall petitions be shortened?
Although notability is a long-standing guideline, some users believe that it is time to reassess its appropriateness and meaning. This request for comment has been lead to by (often controversial) discussions at WT:FICT, WP:Notability/RFC:compromise, and WT:N, not to mention the countless AFD's in which notability has played a role and has been disputed.
Note that this request for comment is just designed to determine community position on 1) whether or not there should be notability guidelines at all, rather than simply using other policies and guidelines such as WP:V, WP:NOT, WP:OR, and WP:RS, 2) whether or not the current notability guidelines should be changed or left as it is, and 3) whether or not it should be renamed.
Please remember to be civil in all discussions on this page. It is perfectly acceptable to respond to other users' comments, so please watch this page if you add any comments.
In an effort to keep each particular argument for or against notability in a central location, each of the two main sections on this page is split into four subsections. The first two subsections are locations to put your opinions on whether or not something should be done with the notability guideline, and if so what should be done. Feel free to add further subsections to these areas to separate different arguments. The second two subsections are for !votes, and should contain little if any actual discussion. Anything that doesn't fall into one of these categories, such as observations on general trends in the RFC, should be placed on the talk page.