User:Orderinchaos/Notability

After voting in numerous AfDs concerning notability, and noting some of the arguments used to Keep articles about utterly non-notable entities by any application of common sense, I have decided to start up a campaign to meet the notability criteria for an article on Wikipedia, to prove just how silly it all is.

I'm in a good position to start - in the last two years alone I have been covered in two media sources independent of myself, been interviewed in a third, have run for political office in a high-profile state by-election, and can play a guitar and sing, and am about to become a published author on local history. As a teenager I once got on national TV with John Howard. Hell, on these bases, I'm notable by some people's criteria already.

One key criteria, however, which could see my efforts foiled (dang!) are:

• WP:BIO - "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage."

But - wait - check these out:

• WP:MUSIC - 2. "Has had a charted hit on any national music chart."
• WP:MUSIC - 4. "Has gone on an international concert tour, or a national concert tour in at least one large or medium-sized country, reported in reliable sources."

How difficult is it to get a tour in Japan or Malaysia on the bill of a much larger act, get a couple of interviews and reviews, or get a #49 hit in Australia? Hell, a 5-year-old child once got a #40 hit in Australia, someone once sold enough CDs at their own event to get a national #3 (although her article is now rusting in the bit bucket in the sky). And, of course, there's the inexplicable popularity of bands like Nickelback, who turn out 4-chord melodies with predictable and painful lyrics like a malfunctioning machine. So, it would seem that I need to get to work on writing a killer song to woo the Asian market.

Join the push to get the man behind the somewhat notable Orderinchaos an article on Wikipedia. You know it's a good cause! It'll make you feel warm and fuzzy that you helped a fellow Wikipedian.