On 12/13/05, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
G'day geni,
Why? We've seen the cost of a failed RC patrol. If you want to put an article on wikipedia doing a minium of research yourself is not too much to ask.
Remember that we are talking about coming across articles that don't cite their sources. If you came across such an article on RC patrol, you would *not* immediately reach for AfD, and you should not be listing stuff on AfD without doing research (if nothing else, because then you couldn't write a good nom, and I've been hot on the issue of AfD nominations for a while now).
I'm not even talking about listing without research--that's sloppy but cannot result in an out-of-process deletion. I'm talking about RC patrollers deleting articles that contain, for instance, statements that imply notability, such as the recent deletion of an article that described its subject as a "prominent barrister and civil libertarian."
Now while it's conceivable that this could have been a peacock phrase designed to puff up a nonentity, the question was easily settled by a quick google on the person in question, which the deleting administrator doesn't seem to have done. The guy in question turns out to be exactly what the stub said he was: a prominent barrister and civil libertarian.