User:Martijn Hoekstra/My criteria for inclusion

Work in progress; comments welcome

My criteria of inclussion differ from current practice and consensus. I think any and all of the following should be included in Wikipedia

General

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  • 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

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  • All institutions secondary education and higher

Organisations

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  • Any publicly traded company

Buildings

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  • All religious buildings of any real religion.
  • All buildings that are recognised as a monument by any national or local government.

Biographies

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Creative

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Any full professor in any nationally accredited university.

Captains of industry

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  • Any highest administrator of a fortune global 500 company

Royalty

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  • 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