[WikiEN-l] Has an article in a paper encyclopedia, but it's "Not Notable"

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/2 Sigvat Kuekiatngam Stensholt <st09039 at mi.uib.no>:
>> I am in one sense amused, in another sense astonished, that Ellen
>> Hambro, the leader of what is effectively the Norwegian Environmental
>> Protection Agency, up for AFD, and even more astonished to see some long
>> time contributors voting to delete it.
>
> Things get proposed for AFD all the time that shouldn't be deleted,
> that's why we have an AFD process and don't just let anyone delete
> anything they like. If it actually gets deleted, then it may be
> indicative of a problem, but just getting put up for AFD isn't a
> problem at all.

Exactly.  I still consider it a sign of systemic bias that none of the
articles I've written have ever been *put up* for deletion, though
finally some articles in a subject area I care about were deleted.

Deletion is just a part of a cycle of things. English Wikipedia is far
beyond the point where every edit is precious. Far more viable text is
merely edited out of article, rubbed out and forever forgotten, every
day than is removed via deletion.  I worry more about Wiki rot than
deletion, and especially more than nomination for deletion. I worry
more about images lost and forgotten as a consequence of vandalism…
etc.