On 6/5/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/06/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
"This article on a Turkish professor lacks sources and contains numerous vague assertions ("He published many books and articles" without explaining further). I am unsure whether an article on him would be encyclopedic, and think some discussion on this would be useful."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Co%C5%9Fkun_Can...
In other words, the nominator himself/herself doesn't know if it should be deleted, so they've put it up for deletion for others to decide.
This is just *stupid*. This is what putting something up for deletion is *for* - saying "This article may be deleted, please look at it and give your opinion" - and there is no more effective way to do it than AFD, for all its faults.
Um, no.