Talk:John A. Brown Jr.
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Notability edit
I have removed the "Notability tag". Maybe this person is notable for only one thing he did, or, rather, what was done to him. He was executed. But, as I have mentioned somewhere else before, this is an encyclopedia. This is not about "good vs. bad". A lot of "highly regarded" editors put in a lot of effort to list every person who has ever won an Olympic medal, a world championship medal, European medal, Pulitzer Prize, Oscar, Purple Heart, and so on. ANY RECOMMENDATION. Regardless of whether that was the ONLY "notable" thing that person ever did. This is an encyclopedia. Hundreds of thousands of "good people" who did nothing else except being good "once" deserve an article? But little over a thousand bad people don't? The way I look at Wikipedia is that it is hopefully one day going to be a reliable source of reference for people (or maybe even aliens from outside Earth) 100 years from now, 1,000 years from now, no matter how long. This is an encyclopedia. This is about truth and about history. Not about "sugarcoating" things. Good or bad, it should be in an encyclopedia. A "bad" person doesn't deserve a mention unless he's been "very" bad? A "good" person deserves a mention even if there are many more "good" persons? If a "notability tag" is going to be put on articles like this, then I can think of tens of thousands of articles that should be tagged the same way. An encyclopedia is not about good or bad, it's about facts. And the less people did or had something done to them, the more they deserve an article. After all, I don't deserve an article simply because I'm able to raise my middle finger, for instance, or for having been beaten up, or for having been a good boy and listened to my parents at some point. wjmt (talk) 02:57, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
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