Tony,
Fair point in that I used the words wrongly
However, I feel that my words have been taken out of context. I was
responding to a admin who was claiming that the word notable should not be
used in AfD discussions and he would speedy keep any votes in which the word
was used.
My point was, and remains, that notability is a central concept in AfD
discussions as much as verifiability. If a user wishes to assert that the
article is worthy of an A7 speedy delete on the grounds that it isn't
notable, it should be open for him or her to do so.
I feel that my words have been taken out of context in this thread.
On 9/16/05, Tony Sidaway <minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com> wrote:
Keith Old writes:
"After all, one of the reasons for Speedy Deletion is that an article has
not
established notability of the subject."
No. Lots of our articles don't *establish* notability, and they're not
speediable at all. The A7 CSD is for articles that don't *assert*
notability. If an article contains a (reasonably credible) claim of
notability, that is enough to take it out of the category. The criterion
is somewhat elastic, but there is apparently some ongoing work to tighten
it, by providing illustrative examples or otherwise. So if you write an
article "Bobby Moore, a player for West Ham, was the captain of the 1966
World Cup winning England football team", it stop far short of
establishing notability (no references) but it does undeniably *assert*
notability.
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