Deletionism worsens systemic bias. As a young Singaporean who
contributes to articles pertaining to the Little Red Dot, I was
dismayed to find out that many articles on notable Singaporean topics
have been nominated for deletion (or even speedy deleted) by
Wikipedians who know nothing about Singapore. I could provide many
examples, but I believe the four below would suffice:
Last year, Nehwyn nominated many articles on Singaporean shopping
malls for deletion. These included [[Suntec City Mall]] (which holds
the world's largest fountain).
After a bitter dispute with an SGpedian on [[Singapore Airlines]],
Russavia nominated many articles on Singaporean hotels for deletion.
These included [[Shangri-La Hotel Singapore]] (the flagship hotel of
the Shangri-La group).
Xiaxue - Singapore's top blogger. Claims to notability:
1. At the 2005 Bloggies, she won the Best Asian Weblog Award.
2. She has worked as a columnist for The New Paper, STOMP, Maxim
magazine and Snag magazine.
3. She hosted her own TV show named Girls Out Loud, which was aired on
MediaCorp Channel 5.
4. Several of her blog posts have sparked national controversies.
Wikipedia's article on her was speedy deleted. I managed to persuade
an admin to undelete it, but someone nominated it for deletion. With
my convincing arguments to keep the article, and a fellow SGpedian
searching LexisNexis for newspaper articles about her, the deletion
debate closed with Keep as the result.
Chen Liping - one of Singapore's top actresses. Claims to notability:
1. Her record at MediaCorp's Star Awards - the Lion City's only major
annual award ceremony for excellence in television. Since 2001, she
has been nominated for the Best Actress award thrice. In 2003, she won
the Best Actress and Most Unforgettable Character (a special award,
only awarded on that year) awards. She is one of only three
Singaporean actresses to be honoured with the All-Time Favourite
award.
2. She starred in the 2004 Jack Neo movie The Best Bet (very few
Singaporean actresses have made it to silver screen).
3. She was involved in the Slim 10 controversy.
Wikipedia's article on her was speedy deleted, and has not been recreated since.
Before nominating an article for deletion, or speedy deleting an
article, on the grounds of non-notability, please do a quick Internet
search (which may reveal sources that establish its notability) and
ask a relevant WikiProject (which may know more than you do).
--
Written with passion,
J.LW.S. The Special One
2007/9/18, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 9/17/07, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/17/07, Ian Tresman
<ian2(a)knowledge.co.uk> wrote:
The credibility of Velikovsky's ideas have
nothing to do with the Pensée series. And
Velikovsky never described planetary "billiards".
My grandparents' library had some of his first editions. I'm using
one of the modern euphamisms, but I'm intimately familiar with his
work. It has no scientific credibility in the modern sense.
I think you mean "dysphemism" or more colloquially "brickbat"
here, not "euphemism".
--
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
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