Talk:List of famous people

Criteria for inclusion
Using the word "famous" may be over-complimentary. Someone whose mentioned claim to fame consists of having his name given to a town and a mountain may be lucky to be on such a list. The criterion for inclusion in Wikipedia is mere notability; I've read its definition but forgotten the details.

I'm happy to have someone (two+) add to a list that is trying to list everybody whom we and Wikipedia both have. However, eventually (after we get our bot procedures working really well) we will have everybody who's on Wikipedia and has a parent or child mentioned there or known to us. It will be a huge list; are you updaters ready? Maybe you will then want to tighten the criteria for listing!!

Thanks for sticking with it as far as this; the extra listing of those names must be increasing our findability.

Robin Patterson 14:08, 19 August 2008 (UTC)