[WikiEN-l] Deletionism

[Ray Saintonge]

MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:

>There's nothing wrong with deleting articles, as long as attempts have been
>made to clean them up, or solve their problem some other way. A lot of
>articles that are nominated for deletion can be rescued by renaming, merging
>or simply adding a line to claim notability.
>
Observing that would cut down the arguing.

>I'm not trying to step on the toes of the editors involved in this, but take
>for example the article on Michael Perham who became the youngest sailor to
>cross the Atlantic. That's clearly notable, but the article was deleted
>because it stated "he was believed to become the youngest person to cross
>the Atlantic". 
>
The youngest verifiable person to cross the Atlantic was probably a baby 
during early colonial days. ;-)

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