On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:38:39AM -0800, Matthew Brown wrote:
A good current example of (IMO problematic) deletionist arguments can be found at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mockingbird Don't Sing]]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mockingbird_Don...
- in which several people argue that the article on a movie be deleted
DESPITE IT MEETING THE "NOTABILITY GUIDELINE" ALREADY ESTABLISHED, with comments like:
- "I don't especially like the trend of article creation for seemingly
every banal film coming down the pipeline these days, and here we can actually do something about it"
- "We're trying to build a better encyclopedia, and the presence of
this article isn't helping, which is why it should go, even if it happens not to transgress WP:FICT"
- "If anyone voting "keep" has something other than WP:ILIKEIT, let's hear it"
-Matt
Yes, and it was a snowjob keep, with these approaches strongly criticised. Good work in fact.
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