[WikiEN-l] Turn off AfD

Sun Dec 11 11:16:39 UTC 2005

On 12/11/05, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>
> G'day Anthony,
>
> > On 12/9/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>On 12/9/05, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> >>>Yes, you've confused what I've said.  I think we should add more
> >>>*objective* criteria to the speedy deletion candidates, not
> >>>*subjective* ones.
> >>
> >>If totaly objective criteria don't turn up much outside maths
> >
> > I find it hard to believe that we can't come up with objective
> > criteria for articles that everyone agrees should be deleted.
> > Verifiability, for instance, is an objective criterion.
>
> Verifiability is necessary, but not sufficient, for an encyclopaedic
> article.  But not everyone agrees on that (IIRC, you yourself have gone
> to great --- perhaps even "extreme" --- lengths to show your disagreement).

Verifiability is in some ways quite a harsh requirement. It was what
got [[yoism]] deleted.

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geni