I just checked on this thread out of curiosity, and found it has been closed in about as
sensible and articulate a way as I've seen. I think the closing comments are a model
of consensus assessment, and well worth a look:
The result was no consensus. The argument that it passes WP:N are hard to overcome.
NOTNEWS is much trickier - how can one evaluate the long-term significance of a event that
happened a week ago? I can't see the case that it's "routine news
reporting" the way baseball games, horroscopes, or traffic reports are - one would
need to make a compelling case, which isn't done here. There is, I think, a sufficient
consensus that the phrase and subsequent meme should be mentioned either in an article, or
in an article about the second debate (which appears to be merged into an article about
all the debates at the moment). I can't tell which from this discussion, because both
positions rely strongly on guessing what may come, partisan assertions. The argument that
it's POV to merely have an article on the topic would need a compelling argument, not
just a straightforward assertion, given that the sources come from across the political
spectrum. If it was only far left sources repeating it, I would be inclined to give that
position serious weight - not so much when it's the Globe & Mail. As with every
article, merger remains an editorial possibility if a local consensus agrees to it (since
people often ask this be stated explicitly). I wasn't able to detect a trend that way
in the discussion - but it's tricky, because the sources kept appearing as the
discussion continued, which may have changed the calculus is a way that a discussion like
this, with much heat but little light, didn't illuminate. WilyD 12:37 am, Yesterday
(UTC−7)
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Oct 23, 2012, at 7:10 AM, Jane Darnell wrote:
Very funny to read those delete and keep reasons,
thanks!
2012/10/23 Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>
Amusingly enough…I did a Wikipedia presentation Thursday at the Open Education
conference, and as I often do, asked for a suggestion of a current issue. "Binders
full of women" was the topic suggested, so we found exactly that deletion debate and
discussed it. And lo and behold, that screen capture became the image shown on the YouTube
preview for the video. Not exactly what I would have picked…so yeah, another big laugh,
for me at least :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QeIiv-BYTs&feature=plcp
Here's hoping Romney refers those binders full of women to Wikipedia!
-Pete
On Oct 22, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
If you're familiar with recent Romney comment
about having "Binders full of women" you'll get a big laugh out of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Binders_full_o…
-Sarah
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