David Gerard wrote:
2009/4/27 <WJhonson(a)aol.com>om>:
I'm not saying that people should delete
based on Google results in the
first place. In fact I am the one who put that note on historical subjects
into the policy in the first place a few years back. Subjects who are not
necessarily currently talked-up might have been quite the popular rage back in
1920 or 1920 or 1420, and should not be deleted based on current Google
searches.
I must say, the blindness of some AFD participants to anything that
happened before 1995 can be more than a little annoying ...
I haven't found this to be a big problem in practice, but maybe I've
been lucky? A handful of my edge-case biographies of 19th-century
individuals have been nominated for AfD, but all survived. One was a
translation from a famous 19th-century German encyclopedia (ADB), and
nobody could find a single post-1900 source on the man, but it was kept
nonetheless, with the justification that having once been included in
ADB is sufficient to automatically establish notability. A pleasantly
surprising result.
-Mark