People notable for only one event (such as Anis Amri) are not deemed notable unless the event is particularly noteworthy (for example, Gavrilo Princip is notable because the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was so important in world history. This policy allows Wikipedia, although created mainly by volunteers, to be used to amplify the power of those with editorial control over television and other old media - since topics they do not report are therefore excluded from Wikipedia as a consequence.
Morevoer, by excluding individual researchers (no oversight => questionable by definition), this criterion cedes de facto control of the agenda to big media. The assumption that reports in different commercially-controlled media sources are independent is incorrect, due to the unprecedented consolidation of big media. The primary criterion used by Wikipedia to determine notability is that a subject has "gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time.
This rule effectively allows Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's decades long project to control newspapers and television to also decide what should and shouldn't be published on Wikipedia.Īnis Amri, the reported perpetrator of the 2016 Berlin attack, was not deemed notable enough to have his own page Because the commercially-controlled media chose not to report it, the notability rule was used to censor Wikipedia. Although the authenticity of the primary source document was not questioned, the page was removed from Wikipedia in part due to a "lack of reliable secondary sources".
The 7th Floor Group was termed a " shadow government" in an FBI document that was leaked by Wikileaks. Moreover, events that the corporate media choose to ignore are not deemed 'notable'. Wikipedia has an explicitly establishment friendly policy of assuming that commercially-controlled media is reliable, even though they are legally allowed to lie. Wikipedia should only include "notable" articles, so it needs "a test used by editors to decide whether a topic can have its own article".