On Wednesday 28 August 2002 04:06 am, Karen wrote:
Gibberish is not an article. Blank pages are not an
article. And
nonsense phrases posted by a casual passerby are not an article. They
just take up space that a real article could use. If it was a real
article it would say something like 'Kate Hudson is (blah blah blah)'.
Leaving this doesn't encourage the writer to make real contributions -
if anything it encourages them to leave more nonsense to clutter up the
space!
I totally agree - and thank you for making the distinction between and
article and a mere page.
A BLANK OR GIBBERISH PAGE IS NOT AN ARTICLE. So there isn't any reason why it
shouldn't be voted for deletion if not deleted outright (of course, if it
looks like a non-malicious newbie experiment we shouldn't be harsh when we
delete the page -- at least say hi in the delete summary).
Stubs on encyclopedia or almanac topics that have decent definitions /should
not/ be deleted however -- these are the beginning of articles. So long as a
subject is adequately defined (something I find to be a non-trivial task --
"a large city in Texas" DOES NOT cut it though), then passer-bys can
incrementally build the definition into a proper stub and then into an
article based on their incomplete knowledge of the subject.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)