[WikiEN-l] Nominations for deletion, too short, not trivia

[The Cunctator]

On 6/5/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 05/06/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "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_Aktan
> >
> > 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.
>
> This is just *stupid*. This is what putting something up for deletion
> is *for* - saying "This article may be deleted, please look at it and
> give your opinion" - and there is no more effective way to do it than
> AFD, for all its faults.
>

Um, no.