[WikiEN-l] Process wonkery

Sun Sep 24 19:02:15 UTC 2006

On 9/23/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 23/09/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>
> This is a hardened attitude formed by people on VFD as it was who
> wanted to delete all schools from Wikipedia below the notability level
> of Eton. That is: the process was pathological on both sides.

Quite frankly I am anything but a deletionist, but I think that a school
with 75 students and no other claim to notability doesn't deserve a
Wikipedia article

So let's assume every school will be in Wikipedia on the same basis
> that every pissweak or even no-longer-existent hamlet in the US will
> remain. What can be done then?
>
> * Is existence enough? Evidently.
> * So we need proof of existence and basic verifiable information.

 There is a long-established tradition of notability for Wikipedia
articles.  We delete things that are non-notable.  People who say "all
schools are notable" aren't discussing an issue, they are espousing an
ideology.  Some people who home-school their children register a school.  By
that token, anyone home-schooling their children is notable enough for
inclusion, so the only barrier then is verifiability

There should be enough for a stub at the very least. If you want to
> turn it into a list entry instead, the redirect needs to be in the
> appropriate place.
>
> If you're bringing this to wikien-l to re-fight the school deletion
> wars, you're probably not spending your time well.

You really shouldn't be calling the kettle black David ;)

- d.
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