On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:28:02 -0800 (PST), Rick giantsrick13@yahoo.com wrote:
But that's not what's being proposed here. What's being proposed is, if anybody coming into the discussion thinks that the reason for the listing isn't acceptable, they can just delete it from the VfD page. Why not just let it run its course, and vote Keep? Because radical inclusionists are afraid they'd lose the vote. ~~~~
I don't think that whether we have an article on a subject or not should be decided by <s>popularity contest</s>mere majority/plurality voting. Should there not be visible and comprehensible principles that decide what is encyclopedic and what isn't? I don't think anyone (at least with any support) is proposing that people everyone should get a VfD veto, which is what your post implied, but rather that we don't let adding to the VfD page be something that can be done on a whim. If popularity was any measure, we'd have a million articles on celebrity trivia (_not a bad thing in itself_) and no articles in obscure areas of mathematics, or history.
-nsh