Charles Matthews wrote:
Rebecca wrote
I haven't seen the cases at hand, but knowing recent events, I'd guess that they were probably substubs. And that's where they don't help Wikipedia, because they contribute precisely nothing (and diminish our credibility, by showing us to prefer quantity over quality).
They were: [[taut submanifold]], [[isometric immersion]], [[Riemannian submanifold]] and [[critical point]].
The whole deletionist/inclusionist thing is a red herring here (though obviously a debate waiting to happen). All I wanted to point out, was that
Not waiting to happen, happening again. We've been over arguments like this repeatedly, and I don't see it stopping anytime soon. Assuming current conditions persist, I hope it doesn't stop, because it prevents things from swinging wildly toward either extreme.
existing, accepted policies were not being applied with care.
That's a great deal of my point, too. A number of people appear to be ignoring almost all current policy and using VFD as some sort of rubber-stamp mechanism with no concern for how the process is supposed to work.