On 2/28/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
It is the only way that notability guidelines SHOULD work, however. Notability guidelines, IMO, should be guidelines for inclusion, not exclusion; in other words, if it passes this test, then of course we keep it, no need to re-debate it. They should be speedy-keep guidelines. They cannot be authoritative, and thus an article's failure to meet their standards should simply mean that more discussion is required.
I suggest you read AFD for a bit, then. This is all a nice idea, but is the precise opposite of how they are used in practice and the use they were in fact created on Wikipedia for.
Oh, indeed. This was in the if-I-were-god-king-for-a-day mode.
-Matt