[WikiEN-l] Re: Corrected (Wollmann)

Sat May 14 04:16:03 UTC 2005

--- Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Rick wrote:
> 
> >--- "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Why not write a Wikipedia about Wollman, if he's
> >>that fascinating? If it
> >>survives the VFD process, than that might give us
> an
> >>excuse to mention
> >>him via a link from kooks newsgroup. But if it
> fails
> >>a vfd vote, that's
> >>pretty conclusive evidence that he's
> "non-notable".
> >>
> >>Ed
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >He's already been deleted following a VfD vote.
> >
> >  
> >
> If we were to follow both the policy that if
> something is deleted via a 
> VfD then a new article about it should never be
> created, and also the 
> policy that VfD is a quality-control mechanism (as
> you suggest in your 
> other posting sent around the same time as this
> one), this would lead to 
> some articles being declared forever uncreatable
> simply because the 
> first attempt to make it was unmitigatedly bad even
> if there's a 
> legitimate interest in having an article on that
> subject. Since deletion 
> removes old versions from history entirely I don't
> see what the point 
> would be, they're gone either way.

I never advocated that no article should be created on
this person.  I merely reported the situation as it
now stands.

RickK

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