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• An interesting insight into winery articles on Wikipedia. One part that particularly caught my attention was the issue of notability – I didn't know Wikipedia:Notability (wine topics) even existed, though since I don't work in wine articles, I suppose that's not surprising. I see that the guideline has never achieved official Wikipedia guideline status and I'm rather pleased that it hasn't given some rather dubious claims. For instance there has never been any community wide consensus that "local sources" (a term which can be difficult to define) are blanket banned from counting towards notability, per WP:ITSLOCAL and the continued absence of any such language in WP:N. I found the suggestion that local sources give undue weight (a term more associated with neutrality of viewpoints, not notability) to local issue to be somewhat comical to be honest, as that argument fails the reductio ad absurdum test. Yes "local sources" are biased to local issues, that's obvious. I suppose since "regional sources" are biased to regional issues, they should be banned too, as should "national sources" for being biased to national issues, and "global sources" for being biased to global issues. A third-party really needs to give that page a good look over. CT Cooper · talk 02:26, 15 December 2013 (UTC)