On 01/10/06, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
Although I do agree with you generally, it's an unfortunate situation but, I think, inevitable when there is a lack of any standards or principles to be applied in cases of borderline notability (which underlies most of these cases).
I suggest that the reason any attempts to create such standards become merely another place for irresolvable argument is that any standard that doesn't follow fairly elegantly from the basic content rules (NPOV, NOR, V) won't be accepted by editors who weren't in on the vote, and who have a convincing exception to the rule right there to hand. Because it is in fact a grey area and requires ... human editorial judgement. Which is why Wikipedia is written by humans instead of assembled from some sort of data dump.
- d.