Steve Bennett-4 wrote:
On 03/05/06, Gallagher Mark George m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
encyclopaedia article). Articles that need work and could one day become real gems, however, are put on AfD all the time, and this is a pity.
This should never happen. AfD is totally superfluous when the *topic* belongs in WP. Someone should just remove all the crud they don't like and turn it into a stub at worst.
Absolutely. Unfortunately some people's idea of "removing all the crud they don't like" involves deleting articles on subjects with which they are not familiar (since such subjects must therefore be 'non-notable' by definition).