On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, SPUI wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
While it may be annoying when a favorite type of article is listed for deletion, it's best viewed as a chance to argue your case to not delete it.
Remember that the case for deletion needs a consensus, which is actually pretty hard to raise if an article has any merit.
So in other words, the traffic circle articles have no merit? Bull.
Just a thought, SPUI: can you think of a traffic circle that you could write an article worthy of Featured Article status? I ask this in a constructive way, because a very irrefutable argument to anyone who writes on AfD to the effect "This is only an X, & all X is non-notable. Delete" is "Well, Y is an X, & it is a *FEATURED ARTICLE*!!!"[*]
I mention this because a few weeks ago, when you raised the same problem concerning roads, I was about to say the same thing -- only to find that there is an article about a road in California with FA status. One would have to be stubborn to the point of being disruptive not to see that a more thoughtful argument was needed to carry a motion to delete roads between settlements at that point: unless a consensus was created off on some obscure talk page stating otherwise, no article should be deleted that does not have a reasonable chance of gaining FA status. (Roads & streets inside a city may not be protected by this precedent, though: which means we need another example in FA status.)
Geoff
{*] Although you will make your point more graciously without the caps, asterisks, & fewer exclamation marks.