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They actually bring up an interesting philosophical point or two in that discussion - in particular, this idea that "notability is not temporary," at least with respect to a website at least. I would almost have to argue that notability is temporary, even in an encyclopedic context. I mean, should they think of these things in terms of visibility and public perception in the moment, or from a more historical perspective?
I'm tempted to say the latter, but for Wikipedia, it's probably really hard to get their user community to think in those terms. They already have a significant bias towards internet-era (i.e., recent) content in general, which they call "recentism" - and it's understandable, because it's hard to gauge the impact of something that just happened on future public consciousness. Regardless, whatever the reasons for it, most of the time they really do seem to overemphasize the relevance/importance of things that are happening right now.
Of course, I shouldn't be up this late... I'm just happy the domain-name works again.
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Wikipedia Review article up for deletion
