On 6/5/07, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/5/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
Who keeps telling me there are no such thing as deletionists?!
Deletionists.
—C.W.
Dang, I'm not ever playing darts with you, there'd be no room in the bullseye for anyone else.
Here's some more good ones, including a couple of nominations by folks not sure an article should be deleted, and one by an editor who thinks an article shouldn't be deleted--yes, nominated by an editor who thinks it shouldn't be deleted. Got a good one along the lines of [[Rock climbing]]--still my personal favorite AfD nomination.
More off target deletionist AfDs
Instead of discussing article quality and lack of sources on the article's talk page:
"This article on a Turkish professor lacks sources and contains numerous vague assertions ("He published many books and articles" without explaining further). I am unsure whether an article on him would be encyclopedic, and think some discussion on this would be useful."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Co%C5%9Fkun_Can...
In other words, the nominator himself/herself doesn't know if it should be deleted, so they've put it up for deletion for others to decide.
A quick google and scholar search turns up all sorts of information on the subject, but the nominator couldn't be bothered to do that--actually less work than the nomination for deletion.
Here's another deletionist, he didn't have to state which criteria for deletion the article met, because it was obvious to him!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%...
Nominated because it did NOT SEEM to merit an entry--not because it didn't merit an entry, mind you, because it didn't seem to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Eu...
Here's a good one, [[User:Haemo]] is nominating an AfD that even he/she doesn't have an opinion on whether or not it should be deleted--in other words, this user is a deletionist!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ashlea_Evans_%2...
Here we go, a well-known organization (although possibly not as well known as [[Rock climbing]] when it was nominated for deletion) nominated for deletion by a deletionist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Society_for_Cre...
Here's an editor who nominated an AfD based upon his dislike of the news media being able to decide what's notable!!!! Morals and ethics? Who cares when we want to rule the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Michael_J._Devl...
It get's better, nominated for deletion even though the nominator thinks it should be kept, and gets speedily kept--now that's a singular use of editoral time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2007_June_5...
KP