[WikiEN-l] Meanwhile, AfD grinds on
Tony Sidaway
f.crdfa at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 15:43:46 UTC 2005
On 10/17/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/17/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why are people
> > seriously suggesting that we're doing it in such numbers that nobody
> > need even give a reason any more? That's utterly bonkers.
>
> Time use of course it would be fairly trival to create with {{agree}}
> (argee with nominator) so if comments were really required it wouldn't
> do any good.
>
The nominator in this case gave no reason except that he found this
fellow boring and believed him to be non-notable. The former was very
believable but obviously isn't a serious criterion for deletion. The
latter would surely require some kind of rationale.
Here we have a professor who has worked in Canada and Netherlands (not
one of these merkin professors who are apparently not so senior) and a
published author. We have a deletion precedent that (non-vanity)
published authors are notable, and another that professors who have
published books rather than just papers are notable, so the
non-notability claim was, to put it mildly, somewhat implausible.
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