On 9/16/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
No one said anything about the votes being discarded. He merely informed us he checks whether people are being mindless sheep in their voting, which in my opinion is a good thing. When people say "All X deserve an article", they obviously didn't read the article. They'd be basing their vote of the subject rather than the article itself.
I have frequently stated "all schools are notable" in VfD/AfD, and used that as my vote. However, every single school AfD vote I've ever placed was preceeded by reading the article, a brief google search, and a visit to the school's official home page, if it had one.
Claiming to know "they obviously didn't read the article" is a failure to assume good faith, and in fact is frequently wrong, considering I've used phrases just like the one you claim is an indicator that I didn't read the article.
Because all schools are notable, I find them interesting enough to read each of their articles and check their home pages when I run across them. Reading articles I find inherently notable... hmm... what a concept. I would suggest that you accept that other Wikipedia editors have different interests than you and leave it at that.