It's a straw man because you are taking the case in dispute (schools) and claiming that if we keep schools, we will have to keep an article on each school band member.
There are existing rules to deal with vanity articles, and to the extent that we have a problem with them, they have been deleted as vanity.
Let's not confuse the issues of schools with some hypothetical deluge of articles about cheerleaders or dead cats.
If I have presented my case as an extreme one, then I have misrepresented my aims. I certainly do not support an article on each high school band member. I doubt that you could really write a verifiable and factual article on them that was not a vanity page anyway.
It's not that these people are not notable, they certianly are to some people, it is the fact that these would be vanity articles, I am not proposing to remove this criteria for deletion.
Mark
--- Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Mark Richards wrote:
Exactly - this is a straw man.
I don't see how it is a straw man at all. You said explicitly that there are no criteria besides verifiability that are acceptable. The entire contents of my local newspaper are verifiable, as they keep archives. Therefore, *anything* in my encyclopedia is a valid Wikipedia article, and if on a whim I decide to add anything from it, no matter how non-notable, you have no basis to delete it, because you reject notability as a criterion.
And there are many articles on Wikipedia like this that get deleted. There have been articles about college students who made Dean's List, which is verifiable from the University's website; articles about members of high school marching bands, which are verifiable from published lists of marching band members; etc. These all get deleted anyway, due to non-notability.
-Mark
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