[WikiEN-l] Deletions and double jeopardy

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:01:11 -0500, "Ron Ritzman" <ritzman at gmail.com>
wrote:

>Notability is a good example. It would work like this. Someone doesn't
>think that "Joe Bloggshmoe" is notable and nominates his article for
>deletion and the consensus is " strong keep". The AFD discussion is
>then closed "with prejudice" which means that the article can never
>again be AFDed for "lack of notability". (but could be deleted for
>other reasons) This would make sense since "notable" people and
>subjects don't just one day magically stop being notable.

If notability has been proven by reference to reliable sources, then
AfD on grounds of notability will inevitably fail due to the presence
of those sources in the article.  

Of course, if it's just that lots of people say "Keep!  Notable!" and
don't put sources in to back it up...

Guy (JzG)
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