[WikiEN-l] Dealing with overenthusiastic speedy nominators (was There are no pictures in Wikipedia any more)

[Bryan Derksen]

Michael Noda wrote:
> What a coincidence; David's first message just led to me rescuing a
> one-sentence article on a mayor of New York City which had been tagged
> {{db-bio}}.  Clearly mayors of New York as a class have never done
> anything notable, and therefore are just fair game for deletion these
> days </snark>

I had one recently where I was reading a news article that mentioned a
Chinese company, and gave only one bit of information about the company
explaining why it was significant. I wanted to know more about the
company than just that, but what appeared to be the company's homepage
was entirely in Chinese. So I created a stub article consisting of just
that one bit of information about why it was significant. My hope was
that others would fill in the rest later. I've done this before and it's
worked quite well.

{{db-inc}}, "does not assert the importance or significance of the
subject." Sigh.

I undeleted it and reformatted the article so that it _looked_ "more
complete" - gave it a references section and an inline reference to that
news article, added some pointless wikilinks, and mentioned one of their
products (though the product itself doesn't have a Wikipedia page). That
seems to have been sufficient for it to be kept this time.

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