User:Imran/proposal

A criteria for article inclusion that I am working on. I'm trying to combine the current thoughts from all the different areas (from high schools to autobiographies) to form a standardised policy that could be applied across all areas.

Definitions:

• entity - Whatever the article is about.
• spread - the size of the time-space area (which includes at least 1000 people) in which the entity has importance/fame among independent people.
• interest - the percentage of people in that time-space area who are interested/effected by that entity.

What articles to include:

Those with,

• low-spread high interest.
• medium-spread medium interest.
• high-spread low interest.

Essentially this means that if the entity has a very small spread (i.e. is limited to a group of people who are located in a very small geographic area such as a city) then the interest within the group has to be very high. At the other end an entity with a high spread (i.e. international) should only need a small interest to be included.

Practical examples:

• High school articles - These would be included as although interest is limited to a small area, within that area there is a very high interest in it.

• Self-published authors - Although general opinion seems to be against including these, under the above criteria they could be included if their book was very popular in a particular area or if it was widely available internationally.

• 9/11 victims - this criteria would mainly maintain the current status quo, in that most of the individuals involved don't satisfy the criteria at either end. Although in some cases where an individual became highly famous in a local area due to their death they could be included.

In borderline cases I would propose that rather then deleting them that we move them to a temporary namespace where they could reside for say a year before they were reviewed again.