[WikiEN-l] Deletions - do we cut a bit of slack for the Third World

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Salter-Duke [mailto:b_duke at bigpond.net.au]
>Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 03:54 PM
>To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: [WikiEN-l] Deletions - do we cut a bit of slack for the Third World
>
>Please take a look at:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kathmandu_University_High_School_%28second_nomination%29#.5B.5BKathmandu_University_High_School.7CKathmandu_University_High_School_.28second_nomination.29.5D.5D
>
>Should we, as I suggest there, cut a bit of slack for artciles about
>something in the Third World, or do we just accept the "no reliable
>third party sources for notability" mantra. It is just a stub and the
>information seems well supported by the external link to the School
>site. Not perfect, I agree, but I do not suppose Kadmandu newspapers are
>searched by Google and that is not perfect either. I would welcome views
>in general on this sort of thing, without asking any of you to intervene
>in that discussion for deletion.
>
>Brian

Common sense would counsel cutting some slack. We do for [[Citizendium]] (And [[Wikinfo]].

Fred