On 02/02/2008, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
Those of you
who keep railing
about the "evil trend of deletionism" convienently forget that much of the
deleted articles are in direct violation of policies that have nothing to do
with notability.
If they can be deleted for reasons other than notability, why do you
need notability to delete them?
I was thoroughly amused to open enwp this morning and find a notice
telling me an article I created had been prod-tagged. (Someone has a
bot set up to do this, now. Good for them)
So, I go to look.
"It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following
concern: As per Wikipedia policy, small-town mayors are not notable
just for being mayors."
Ah, the impeccable timing of coincidence.
(The *guideline* - not policy - says, incidentally, that "Municipal
politicians are not inherently notable just for being in politics, but
neither are they inherently non-notable just because they're in local
politics - evaluate each case on its own individual merits." The town
in question is the thirteenth-largest city in a European nation.)
I can't quite remember why I wrote this article. I think I was
expecting someone to expand it and wanted to give them a kick-start.
Ah, well, untagged now, it's not hurting anyone.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk