User talk:VegaDark/Sandbox
Inclusion criteria
A list of alumni doesn't have to be a list of notable alumni, i.e a list of those alumni that satisfy the WP:BIO criteria. It can be a list of alumni that are verifiable from sources other than simple directories of alumni, even if they don't warrant whole encyclopaedia articles of xyr own. This approach yields three classes of people and the following inclusion criteria (from Talk:University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee):
- If the person is an alumnus and has a Wikipedia article that satisfies the WP:BIO criteria, then the list contains a bluelink and a short summary.
- If the person is an alumnus and doesn't have a Wikipedia article, but the sources exist to show that the WP:BIO criteria are satisfied, then the list contains a redlink and a short summary.
- If the person is an alumnus and doesn't satisfy the WP:BIO criteria, but is verifiable as an alumnus from sources other than just straight directories of alumni, then the list contains a (sourced) paragraph without a link.
As such, "notability" is the wrong thing to mention in the introduction and the wrong heading to use for the third columns of the tables. I suggest "description" or "summary" for the column heading.
The general point is that in any list of people in Wikipedia, it is not necessarily the case that every name should be linked to a concomitant biographical article. Some people have only 1 or 2 sentences about them in the sources outside of Wikipedia, and thus should only have 1 or 2 sentences about them, within a larger article, inside Wikipedia. Uncle G 11:22, 1 December 2006 (UTC)