[WikiEN-l] Proposal: Soft deletion

[David Gerard]

On 28/02/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> If the policy on notability is clear -- which it should be -- then
> there shouldn't be much edit warring. If it isn't clear, then
> obviously people will start to wiki-lawyer that article so-and-so
> meets the policy. But that is going to happen one way or another.


See, that's the problem. It isn't clear. The notability guidelines
tend to arbitrary numerical cutoffs for the sake of having arbitrary
numerical cutoffs, rather than because doing so clearly follows from
NPOV, NOR and verifiability. "Notability" doesn't in fact follow from
any of these. Having "notability" rules is itself controversial.


- d.