[WikiEN-l] Re: Proposal on VFD: enforcement of nomination policy

Sun Mar 6 05:12:40 UTC 2005

--- Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
> For people using "not notable" or "not encyclopedic"
> as bare-bones 
> justifications, I would suggest that they retrain
> themselves to 
> elaborate a little bit more. By themselves, these
> are meaningless 
> shorthand for "should be deleted" - we know that
> already, that's why you 
> came to the page. Point out that you put in a little
> bit of effort to be 
> confident that it doesn't belong. "I've never heard
> of it and couldn't 
> find any evidence that anyone else has, either" will
> go a lot farther 
> than "I've never heard of it so it must not be
> notable".
> 
> --Michael Snow

But "not notable" and "not encyclopedic" is not the
same thing as "I never heard of it".  There are lots
of things on VfD right now which are listed because
they're not notable, or at least the nominator
believes so, which has nothing to do with whether
they're obscure or not.  Things like [[Countries on
two continents]], [[Russian joke]], [[F11]], [[Cities
with same latitude]], [[Axis of weasel]],
[[Hypocoristics for Spanish names]], [[Esuvee]],
[[Vampire lifestyle]], etc., etc., etc.

RickK

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