[WikiEN-l] Banality threshold

[geni]

On 29/09/2007, Wily D <wilydoppelganger at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure that the problem is admins - I go through the A7 noms and
> delete maybe 2/3s of them, and a good chunk of those I do delete
> aren't A7s, but are copyvios, spam, what have you.   It would be nice
> if new article patrollers understood the point, though.

Admins are expected to understand. Everyone else? Not so much

> I'm sure every admin can hash up examples of such articles - I've
> rejected three articles on Jamaican Federal Elections, one on a
> Haitian Presidental Election and one on the Cuisine of San Marino in
> the last two weeks or so, of the top of my head.  Who's going through
> articles thinking "Haitian Presidential Election?  Doesn't sound
> notable or encyclopaedic ... " ?

Probably not the person trying to write one sentence articles on the subject.


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geni