On Apr 25, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Till Westermayer wrote:
Hi, I have removed the proposed-for-deletion tag -- I guess it is a borderline case
Borderline? Hm... It's WP:COI, the only published "sources" are not only self generated (WP:SPS), they're also blogs loaded with viagra SPAM and forum sites... this is the very reason *why* we have so many guidelines on en, lest folks think that they can just throw up some content and therefore deserve their own wikipedia entry. AfD'ing this and any siblings.
Frederick Noronha schrieb am 25.04.2007 21:44:
Dear all, It appears that my persistent questioning of the decisions to delete pages related to some networks doing significant work, but which might not be sufficiently visible in cyberspace (or the English-dominated sections of it) seems to have led someone to decide to delete a page referring to me at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Noronha ! The grounds given are "borderline notability". Not that this matters.... It's amusing to see oneself being shifted from being a "notable Wikipedian" to "borderline notability" over a short period of time. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Frederick_Noronha&diff=124590095&oldid=23812169
Notable wikipedian does not mean notable to the world. http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BIO#Articles_on_Wikipedians
I would still maintain that those deleting pages need to act with responsibility. Besides, the success of Wikipedia (as the 11th most-visited site in the world, according to alexa.com) should not lead to arrogance or unhelpfulness that discourages those attempting to get heard in cyberspace
Write a blog? WIkipedia is not a place to *establish* notability, it's a place to document things once notability is established. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOT#SOAP
(As one editor once told me, good naturedly, "If I want to give you a reason to block your article, I could give you any one of 31 good reasons for it." Yeah, reasons are easy to come by, once someone's mind is made up.)
Experienced editors may already be quite familiar with the criteria. So far, I've counted: VAIN/COI, CORP/ORG, SPS, V. It might or might not be SNOW, I'll leave that to others to decide. :)
- ..The speedy deletions of pages of organisations
whose work is widely noticed and is certainly relevant to the Third World (or the so-called "developing world") is unfair.
If it's widely noticed, it will be documented, and thus pass WP:V
- There should be good reason for deletion of any page (this should
not be taken to mean that I'm making even an indirect case for my page.
AfD requires reasons, and consensus.
- Many such groups might not be visible
enough in cyberspace, but that hardly means their work is not relevant!
...If it's widely noticed, it will be documented, and thus pass WP:V... Same answer to all your other questions. You are about to see how the process works. :)
-Bop