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

Sun Mar 6 21:13:01 UTC 2005

--- Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Rick wrote:
> 
> >--- Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>"Any VFD nomination not listing a reason in
> >>Wikipedia:Deletion policy 
> >>may be summarily removed from the page."
> >>    
> >>
> >Exactly.  And "not notable" is not one of those
> >criteria.  And yet it's one of the most commonly
> used
> >reasons for listing an article.
> >  
> >
> So why not add non-notability to the deletion
> policy? If it's one of the 
> most commonly used reasons for listing an article
> and yet it isn't 
> actually listed as a valid reason for deletion in
> the deletion policy, 
> it seems there's already a pretty big problem either
> with the VfD 
> process or with the deletion policy.

Because, in the recent vote for inclusion as a VfD
reason, notability didn't get enough of a consensus as
a reason for deletion.

RickK

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