[WikiEN-l] Re: Deletion policy needed

Thu Oct 23 17:27:55 UTC 2003

Lee Pilich wrote:

> At 17:05 22/10/2003 -0700, Mark (Delirium) wrote:
>
>> I don't think it would cut nearly enough out.  For example, a short 
>> article listing my place of birth, high school attended, and 
>> university attended is easily verifiable through publically available 
>> records.
>
> Then it could be deleted on the grounds that it would never be more 
> than a stub (I don't know if it's formalised anywhere, but deleting 
> things for that reason has been pretty widely done in the past).
>
> OK, maybe there's a *bit* more to a "keepable" article than it simply 
> being verifiable, but I guess my main point is that it's possible to 
> make a reasonable decision about whether to delete an article without 
> resorting to (necessarily subjective) judgements on its "importance" 
> or "notability".

I agree with Lee that each such case must have its own common sense 
approach without needing to resort to a lot of rigid rules.  In 
addition, I also continue to believe that the benefit of any doubt 
should favour retention.

Ec

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