Mark Gallagher wrote:
G'day Geoff,
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Although I believe we need a threshold for Wikipedia, we also should acknowledge that in most cases an article was submitted with the best of intentions: since we are knifing someone's baby, there is no need to express glee while doing so. It appears to me that there is a consensus that the words "cruft" & "notable" should not be used in AfD: would anyone object if I edit the opening page & explain that use of either of these words will result with the nomination being immediately closed as a Speedy Keep?
*Yes*. "Notable" is an important shorthand, and much less likely to cause offence than the other AfD tragic favourite "vanity".
I agree. Someone needs to run a bot over all the active AfD subpages to replace all instances of "vanity" with "self-aggrandising POV on unremarkable subject, an article on which would violate the Principle of Least Astonishment".