Jimmy Wales

My mother, school teacher, later a pharmacist, wonderful woman, but never been in the news.

I mean, other than me talking about why there shouldn't be a Wikipedia entry, that's probably made it in somewhere, standard example.

You know, there's not enough known.

And you could sort of imagine a database of genealogy having date of birth, date of death, and certain elements like that of private people, but you couldn't really write a biography.

One of the areas this comes up quite often is what we call BLP1A.

We've got lots of acronyms.

Biography of a living person who's notable for only one event is a real sort of danger zone.

And the type of example would be a victim of a crime.

So someone who's a victim of a famous serial killer, but about whom, like, really not much is known.

They weren't a public person.

They're just a victim of a crime.

We really shouldn't have an article about that person.

They'll be mentioned, of course, and maybe the specific crime might have an article.

But for that person, no, not really.

That's not really something that makes any sense, because how can you write a biography about someone you don't know much about?

And this is, you know, it varies from field to field.

So, for example, for many academics, we will have an entry that we might not have in a different context, because for an academic...

It's important to have sort of their career, you know, what papers they've published, things like that.

You may not know anything about their personal life, but that's actually not encyclopedically relevant in the same way that it is for a member of a royal family where it's basically all about the family.

We're fairly nuanced about notability and where it comes in.