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

[Blu Aardvark]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 6/6/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 05/0
>> 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. I have no idea why you believe someone needs
>> to be personally prejudiced towards deleting the article in order to
>> raise this question
>>     
>
> It's a really annoying habit. There are genuinely articles that should
> be deleted out there. And plenty of others that aren't, but were
> nominated for crappy reasons. Nominating articles apparently at
> random, just to give AfD'ers something to think about is just creating
> work for everyone, with little benefit.
>
> If you're not sure whether an article should exist, use {{nn}} or
> something and start a discussion on the talk page. Nominating for AfD
> is saying "This should be deleted, all in favour?!" Not for "What do
> people think?"
>
> Steve
>
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In this particular case ([[Coşkun Can Aktan]]), a discussion on the talk 
page likely wouldn't have accomplished much. The last human edit before 
it was sent to AFD was in November 2006, and that edit included adding 
the {{notability}} concern.

Sending it to AFD, however, established that the person in question was, 
indeed, notable, and brought attention to the article which has been 
significantly improved over the course of the deletion discussion.