sources contents. On a similar note . . . a fortnight ago there was a spate of AfDs for furry fandom articles, including a few furry conventions. Many of these articles were little more than "X is a furry convention in Y occuring at Z, it has 1000 people attend each year here's their website". Nobody was actually disagreeing that this was the case, but there was a lot of "Furrycruft!", "Wikipedia isn't a dictionary!" and "if you can't find a reliable 3rd party published source, you must convict!" flying around. What I ended up doing was creating [[furry convention]], which is essentially "[here's all the stuff we know in general about furry conventions from the reliable sources], if you want to know more about PafCon in particular, you want to go look at their website and at WikiFur, which is an encyclopedia that can contain original research and unverifiable material". Of course, PafCon doesn't have a website because it's a fictional convention, but you get the idea. If Wikipedia doesn't want to write about topics, a good alternative is to do some kind of portal to direct people to those who *do* want to write about it, as long as they are doing so competently. That's helpful for the user because they get the information they're looking for, and it's helpful for Wikipedia because it avoids repeated creation of pages about "non-notable" topics (which inevitably result in a certain proportion of angst-filled AfDs that burn some of our most dedicated contributors out). --- Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry http://greenreaper.co.uk - http://wikifur.com _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l