Submissions:2015/Disputed Notability - A Hands on Workshop

Disputed Notability - A Hands-On Workshop

Community

Workshop

Authors

Kasey Baker and Frank Jones

Email

kayzbaker911@gmail

Usernames

Kayz911 and Frankcjones:

Groups

North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians:

Abstract

Notability, what does it mean within Wikipedia? This is a subject that many of us have wrestled with far too often, yet we are left to our personal threshold for what we establish to be notable.

In our presentation, we will show you just how arbitrary this could be, by presenting a selection of Wikipedia articles, some have been accepted and some have been rejected for lacking notability. Decide for yourself if an article should be accepted or rejected, and then learn the fate of the article and what the community said about it. Together, let’s have a frank discussion whether or not notability standards are being applied fairly, or if we should take a real look into establishing some concrete notability guidelines.

Participants should come away with a keen understanding of this dilemma, how notability is currently defined, and some solutions to improve the standard.:

Time

60 mins

Special schedule requests

None

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maybe depending on if we get a scholarship or not

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1. I am excited to hear a presentation from this Wikipedia group. See you at the conference! Blue Rasberry (talk) 07:38, 1 September 2015 (EDT)
2. Megs (talk) 13:28, 1 September 2015 (EDT)
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