On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:54 AM, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
The nonsense this can lead to is visible in a current AfD, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hugo Austin , where the nominator's argument is that all the articles on all characters of the famous australian soap opera Home and Away should be deleted, because they are either too long or too short. Most of them are in fact, too long or too short , and need to be fixed, but there seems a substantial sentiment in favor of deleting rather than fixing.
This is incorrect.
"the nominator's argument is that all the articles on all characters of the famous australian soap opera Home and Away should be deleted"
No, not all character articles were nominated. Notable characters such as Sally Fletcher, Pippa Ross, Charlie Buckton, Lance Smart and others were not nominated.
"should be deleted, because they are either too long or too short. "
This was not the nomination rationale at all. The comment about some being very long and others being very short was just a description of the articles, not a deletion rationale (of course, it would be an absurd reason to delete). The nominator's deletion rationale was based on notability, reliable sources and written in an "in universe" style.
I'm not going to get into any debate here on en-l but please be more careful not to misrepresent AFD nominations currently in progress.