User:Martijn Hoekstra/My criteria for inclusion
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Work in progress; comments welcomeMy criteria of inclussion differ from current practice and consensus. I think any and all of the following should be included in Wikipedia
General
[edit]- Anything that satisfy the WP:GNG.
- Nothing that doesn't contain content that can be verified in reliable sources. I believe some self-published sites are reliable. I believe some primary sources are reliable.
School
[edit]- All institutions secondary education and higher
Organisations
[edit]- Any publicly traded company
Buildings
[edit]- All religious buildings of any real religion.
- All buildings that are recognised as a monument by any national or local government.
Biographies
[edit]Creative
[edit]- All writers who have more than one book published at a non print-on-demand publisher they don't own
- All composers who have had more than one of their works played by any professional orchestra
- All playwrites who have had more then one of their works played by any professional theater company
Politicians
[edit]- All primary administrators (mayors, governors, presidents, etc) of any region with a population larger than 100.000
- All members of any government of any region with a population larger than 1.000.000
- All politicians that were candidates in any political election of any region with a population larger than 1.000.000, and obtained at least 5% of the vote
Scholars
[edit]- Any full professor in any nationally accredited university.
Captains of industry
[edit]- Any highest administrator of a fortune global 500 company
Royalty
[edit]- Any hereditary ruler of any people of more than 200.000 people
- Any spouse of any hereditary rule of more than 200.000 people, unless that ruler has more than 10 spouses.
- All children of any hereditary ruler of any people of more than 200.000 people, unless that ruler has more than 20 children