User talk:Mike Linksvayer/Article of the Unknown Notable

This seems to be about a misunderstanding or a contradiction in terms. The Wikipedia definition of Notability means a topic that has received coverage in reliable verifiable secondary sources. Not one that should have, would have, could have received notice, but one that did. If there isn't any coverage of the topic, the topic isn't notable. Yes, this means the four thousand men who each independently discovered fire or the wheel are not Notable, because we don't know anything about them. --GRuban (talk) 02:52, 7 November 2010 (UTC)