"Alphax (Wikipedia email)" alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote in message news:43798F2F.50707@gmail.com...
Tony Sidaway wrote:
<snip> > Unless we're adopting an extremely exclusionist approach to Wikipedia > entries, such articles don't really belong on AfD at all. They seem > to be a symptom of simple laziness on the part of the nominators. Yeah, it's all these damn kids who think that if they've never heard of something, it can't be important, but OH NOES! DON"T DELETE MY HIGH SCHOOL! :-P
I'm having difficulty discerning whether you're being ironic here, but yes...that is basically what is happening.
Articles are being nominated purely on the basis of "nn = I never heard of it" and heaven help the poor sod who attempts to interrupt the process because the nominator might not have checked carefully enough.