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.