Walter van Kalken wrote:
The whole problem with the deletion process. Not just on the English wikipedia, is that people who do not know anything about the subject get to judge. So many times you will see reasonings like ... I do not know about it so it isn't notable ...
"I've never heard about it (but I don't know the topic anyway) and I don't see it much on Google, therefore it's not notable."
And agreed with Waerth, one big problem on Wikipedia is that it makes it too easy for people who lack proper judgment about the worth of their opinions (that is, who think they may have opinions on topics they don't know about) to have a voice in the matter.
Recently I've came across criticism on an article about a French politician: according to the critics, one issue was that many of the references were in French! It's a bit like criticizing an article about physics because the references are to physics books and not to the science column of the local newspaper. Sure, it's less accessible; but it's also probably much more accurate.
Again, this seems to come from a bogus assumption that anybody can judge the worth of any article without knowing the issue, simply by using formal criteria like Google hits or numbers of citations. This just does not work.