On 18 May 2012 12:25, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 May 2012 12:12, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
On 18 May 2012 08:59, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
. But my question is what is the granularity of articles? Some places, buildings, streets are merged and some stand on their own. Some are deleted since they do not meet the current standards for "significance".
But that's how it works. Because people get het up in discussions, it tends to be forgotten that a deletion is only supposed to have effect for 6 months.
A deletion has effect for as long as concensus remains the same. There are some vague guidelines on how long to wait between deletion debates, but if there is a good reason to think consensus will have changed (eg. due to new sources being published), then I'm not aware of any rules saying you have to wait 6 months before you can re-create the article.
Obviously not, if the prominence of the topic suddenly changes because it's in the news. My point was that there is nothing inherent in a topic that makes it worth an article, and you have to go case-by-case. By the way "vague guidelines" are good.
Charles