Why should it be up to the "deletionists", as you choose to call those of us who
use and value VfD, to improve garbage which is garbage to begin with and will always be
garbage? Please tell me how to improve [[Tsesungunille]], an article about a place that
the original author made up. Or [[Old Granny Sweat Weed ]], which no one can find any
source to prove that it actually exists, except for the source cited in the article, which
no one can find either. Or [[Disappearing hoagies]], which is supposedly about sandwiches
disappearing from the parking lot during Philadelphia Eagles games. Or [[Abek]], about
the supposed colonization of Brazil by Basques, which no one can verify. Or [[The mode of
production of free software ]], which is the Marxist theory of free software. If we are
ordered to improve these articles, I'd love to know how.
I'm also sick and tired of being ridiculed about the snooker guy. At the time I
placed it on VfD, the article consisted of "Born 1949. A snooker champion. He turned
professional in 1971. He drank and smoked during tournaments helping sponsored tobacco
advertising. Today he is better known for his throat cancer and a stand against tobacco
industry." Please tell me how I'm supposed to know that this is a meaningful
article about an important person, based upon this information?
RickK
James Duffy <jtdire(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
I think a statement by Jimbo, if he agrees, that it is
up to the
deletionists to improve articles (rather than >deleting them) will be
somewhat useful for the non-deletionists. I am tired of seeing articles
listed for >deletion, simply because somebody thinks it "sucks"; I am tired
of being threatened, "You either improve >this article within the week; OR,
we are gonna kill it!"
(A classic example was the proposed
deletion of an article on a famous one-time winner of the World Snooker
championships, someone known to millions worldwide but simply not known to
Americans, therefore thought of as not warranting a page. Though to be fair,
the proposer of this ludicrous deletion did realise from the laughter of the
rest of the world that he had made a mistake. Not all proposers of loopy
deletions accept that they made a mistake and crusade to delete perfectly
fine articles simply because /they/ don't accept the article.
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