What's his username? I'd like to slap him with a cluestick. Er, I
mean, ask him politely to use English in vfd nominations.
On 9/8/05, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
Jack Lynch wrote:
This thread is a very good argument for getting
rid of VfD. The main
thing I (and everyone I know who reads it) like about the wikipedia is
the access to detailed information on absurdly obscure info. If
someone searches for a web comic, it instantly becomes notable and
encyclopedic. What are the deletionists thinking??? Wiki is not paper,
and if you keep deleting, it won't be anything special as far as
encyclopedias go, either.
Amazingly, I'm in full agreement with Sam. :)
Just the other day I stumbled across an article on VfD for which the
entire text of the justification given for its nomination was:
"NN, D"
I'm hardly a newbie, but even for me it took a few minutes to figure out
that "NN" meant non-notable. I checked the edit history of the editor
who'd made the nomination and found about a dozen identical VfDs for
other articles made at the same time. I voted "keep" on every last one
of them because in my opinion the _nominations themselves_ were not
adequate. I didn't even bother reading the actual articles and for all I
know based on the justification given the nominator hadn't read them
either - he apparently didn't even bother to take the time to type out
whole words. Got accused of violating WP:POINT, of course, but I
completely stand by my actions.
How about a policy whereby VfDs that don't adequately explain why the
nominator made it can be summarily deleted? If someone proposes deleting
an article they should at least show that they put effort into
determining whether deletion was warranted.
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