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(a)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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