Rick (giantsrick13@yahoo.com) [050520 07:46]:
--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Far too often I see it used to mean "it must not be important because I've never heard of it."
Far too often I see this straw man argument used to villify people with good intentions. I've seen far too many times, "Keep it, it must be notable, I've heard of it." Isn't that just the other side of the same coin?
Only insofar as notability is itself a deletion reason per policy, which it isn't. (Things relating to it certainly are.)
Please refrain from making personal attacks on the motives of people who make VfD nominations.
I'm talking about actual nominations made out of sheer ignorance, not a hypothetical straw man.
- d.