[WikiEN-l] What is happening to the community

[Screamer]

David Goodman wrote:
> Screamer, you seem to have confused a number of things. The assertion
> of notability requirement for   does not apply specifically to
> BLPs--it applies to any articles about people or some kinds of groups
> or web content that do not assert or indicate some plausible
> notability or importance. Meeting it does not provide that the article
> be kept, it just provides that it not be speedily deleted as obviously
> impossible altogether. It can further be contested by anyone except
> the author. It's just a shortcut requirement to get things quickly
> deleted that do not warrant a discussion.
>
> What you are probably thinking of is the provision for summary
> deletion of BLPs as "Any administrator, acting on their own judgment,
> may delete an article that is substantially a biography of a living
> person if they believe that it (and every previous version of it)
> significantly violates any aspect of the relevant policy. " as enacted
> by arb com at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Badlydrawnjeff#Summary_deletion_of_BLPs
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Screamer <scream at datascreamer.com> wrote:
>   
I'm not confused, I was only giving you a very specific example.  I 
contested nothing you just stated.

So... how do you address my examples in regards to your earlier 
argument? since we got off topic.


./scream