That's true; the policy does say that. However, I now disagree with that particular part of the policy, and so do many other people.
What we have to keep in mind is that Wikipedia policy is not iron-clad law. It is determined by us Wikipedians as we go about creating the encyclopedia. If a policy is becoming a hinderance, it's time to change it.
Stephen G.
--- Andre Engels engels@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
I just redeleted it. really, that's /not/ an
article. I'm not suggesting
that we keep gibberish, and I don't think anyone
else is either (except, I
guess, whoever requested it be restored. And I
would like to hear why it
was requested restored; I must have missed
something).
On my personal page, I found the following text:
Dr. Engels: please review the criteria for deletion; namely the policy of not deleting page titles that may become valid entries. If you disagree with the policy, you should change the stated policy instead of violating it. Note that the current policy is the result of discussion of various points (some of which may have changed, because they were based partially on features of the software which may have changed). That is not to say that it can't be changed, but that there was serious consideration in coming up with the policy.
I give in that it does not exactly ask for restoring it, it does however explicitly ask for not deleting it.
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