Bryan Derksen wrote:
Rick wrote:
--- Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
"Any VFD nomination not listing a reason in Wikipedia:Deletion policy may be summarily removed from the page."
Exactly. And "not notable" is not one of those criteria. And yet it's one of the most commonly used reasons for listing an article.
So why not add non-notability to the deletion policy? If it's one of the most commonly used reasons for listing an article and yet it isn't actually listed as a valid reason for deletion in the deletion policy, it seems there's already a pretty big problem either with the VfD process or with the deletion policy.
A formal proposal to add non-notability as a reason for deletion has been voted on (with a large number of voters) in the past. It didn't even get majority support.
The main problem is that notability depends very much on voters' POVs' [*] whereas verfiability (which enjoys universal support) can be ascertained in an NPOV way, thus the community has not proved willing to enshrine non-notability into policy.
Pete
[*] E.g. esoteric topics about individual characters in sub-plots of Lord of the Rings are kept, whereas as articles about million dollar turnover manufacturing busineses are deleted, reflecting the (painting with a broad brush) slant towards the "nerdy student/lefty" make-up of the Wikipedia population.