On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Andrew Gray wrote:
On 07/09/05, Geoff Burling llywrch@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
After all, I haven't seen anyone argue on VfD that a village of 100 people in Africa or Asia is not notable: that's difficult to claim when there are so many existing articles about communities of that size -- or smaller -- in the U.S.
I have a vague recollection of having seen a small Eastern European town or two be VfDed, though I suspect that was more through it being a substub and contextless than it being "nn. little foreign place."
I missed that -- but I'm not surprised. My primary complaint about VfD is that there are so many articles to wade thru: just to read the articles listed for one day can take the better part of an hour, & should I decide to add to the discussion or even research a given entry . . .
But FF put it quite well elsewhere in this thread. It is the duty of the original author of an article to make a case for notability. A contributor needs to be her/his own stringent critic, & always offer as many reasons to convince the rest of us keep a given article, rather than assume we'll accept any contribution. I still don't why I did a Google search on [[Asrat Woldeyes]], & was able to take an article that clearly failed to establish notability (it merely said his father had been killed by the Italian occupation forces), & add an entry to Wikipedia about a man who was not only a major activist in Ethiopian medicine, but also an important opposition leader whom Amnesty International had classified a "prisoner of conscience" -- but I'm glad that I did. orphaned
Geoff