On 11/14/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Most stuff that lands on afd is not implicetly verifiable.
Oh I dunno. Looking at (randomly chosen recent day log) November 8, we have the following entries:
Verifiable: 50-cent word, A. Y. Jackson Secondary School, Abdul Samad Maharuddin, Alan lennon, AMUST Registry cleaner, Andkon, Anphillia, Anvert, Appalachian State University Student Government Association, Arcanime, Archos Gmini XS202
Unverifiable: A. Willis Abraham, Aadam Nasir, Afskum, Apples, Guns and Greed, Archipel
I stopped after this, but I think you'll see my point. Lots of entries on AfD are verifiable.
Incidentally I find one or two of the deletion nominations somewhat disturbing. The "Archos Gmini XS202" nomination was accompanied by the statement "I've never heard of this mp3 player" The only problem with the article was some unencyclopedic language. The Alan lennon entry was apparently deleted merely because the performer has no entry on Allmusic.com, but this Kilkenny musician has played on a Kim Fowley album and recorded his own well received 2003 album and achieved endorsements by several musical instrument companies.
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.