On 5/3/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/05/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
As for "an article with no claim to notability", I actually have no idea what that phrase means.
An article has to establish the notability of its subject. If it doesn't do that, it's subject to speedy deletion.
...I recite.
Seems like circular reasoning to me. An article which doesn't show any reason why it shouldn't be deleted, is subject to speedy deletion.
If that's a criteria for speedy deletion, I'm not sure why there's a need for any others!
Stubbing only works if there's something there you can verify in the first place. Stubbing an article without verifying that your stub is accurate first is a very bad idea IMO, because it gives false credibility to the possibly inaccurate statement.
Heh: '''John Smith''' was a rap singer [citation needed].
Steve
I used to modify AfD nominations to say something like "John Smith might be a person". Got reverted half the time though, to the original article with all the unverifiable statements in it.
But if an article really does say nothing more than "John Smith was a rap singer [citation needed]", I think the encyclopedia would be better off purging it after a few weeks of begging for a citation. If John Smith really is a rap singer and someone can prove it, it's easy enough to re-add the information later.
Anthony