Notability debate participants

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As this discussion continues, I have become curious if there is a correlation between a user's tenure here at Wikipedia and his/her opinion on whether "notability" is a useful criterion or not. This table sorts the participants in the debate (and the related debates on other notability-related page) by the date of their first recorded edit. This is, of course, an imperfect measure since we have no way to know how long anyone edited anonymously before logging in.

So far, this list includes participants of WP:SIGNIF and WP:MEMES. I considered including WP:BIO but decided not to since that page predates the current debate and many users on the page history and talk page are not actively participating in the other "notability" debates.

While there is no perfect correlation, there does seem to be a trend that the most vocal objections to the concept of "notability" as an inclusion criterion seem to be from relatively newer users. (Incidentally, I am disturbed to discover myself at the top of this list. Where are all the old hands?) Rossami (talk) 01:57, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

user:Rossami 2 April 2003
User:Jossi 16 April 2004
User:KeithTyler 17 May 2004
User:Porge 9 June 2004
User:KillerChihuahua 29 June 2004
User:Rspeer 16 July 2004
User:Urthogie 17 September 2004
User:Modulatum 17 October 2004
User:Visviva 28 October 2004
User:Christopher Parham 7 November 2004
User:DreamGuy 13 November 2004
User:Patsw 11 December 2004
User:Dtobias 17 December 2004
User:Thivierr 6 January 2005
User:Mangojuice 27 January 2005
User:Grace Note 27 January 2005
User:Badlydrawnjeff 12 February 2005
User:Marudubshinki 14 February 2005
User:Hiding 13 April 2005
User:RGTraynor 17 May 2005
User:Friday 26 June 2005
User talk:Aaron Brenneman 5 July 2005
User:Dragonfiend 10 July 2005
User:Dalbury 8 August 2005
User:Silensor 31 August 2005
User:DGJM 10 September 2005
User:Stifle 6 October 2005
User:John Reid 29 December 2005
User:Siva1979 6 January 2006
User:Slowmover 12 January 2006
User:JoshuaZ 18 January 2006
user:for great justice 30 January 2006
User:Hawkestone 21 February 2006


WP:WINC

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USERS 2