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== "Encyclopedic-enough" rulebook ==

How can people decide what belongs in an encyclopedia and what doesn't?  For instance, take three artists: [[Picasso]] (of worldly fame), [[Jacob_Lawrence]] (randomly selected artist of limited fame), and my neighbor the artist (of neighborly fame).  Obviously Picasso has an entry in all encyclopedias.  Jacob Lawrence (who I know nothing about) perhaps belongs in an encyclopedia, and my neighbor definitely does not belong.  So there exists a fuzziness when deciding what to add or delete. I would think there would need to be somekind of unambiguous ruleset that stated things like "High Schools - ALLOWED" "High School Mascots - NOT ALLOWED" ... and so on.  Does this exist? and if so, where?
[[User:Paitum|Paitum]] 01:19, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

: It's not exactly an unambiguous ruleset, but take a look at [[Wikipedia:What's in, what's out]]. [[User:Jrdioko|<nowiki></nowiki>]] &nbsp;&ndash; [[User:Jrdioko|Jrdioko]] [[User talk:Jrdioko|<small>(Talk)</small>]] 01:30, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

:Also might want to take a look at [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not]]. Best, [[User:Meelar|[[User:Meelar|Meelar]] [[User talk:Meelar|(talk)]]]] 13:15, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)