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

Thomas Dalton wrote: Like I said in the original post, I would not have posted this letter had I believed this to be a one-off incident. But I have seen THREE such incidents in the past week, including one incident of a literally encyclopedic shipping company tagged for an A7 speedy deletion. None of these nominations appear to have been made in bad faith, but I think they are all badly misguided. When I saw at least one long time user voting to delete the Hambro article, after her coverage in a major paper encyclopedia was established, I grew more worried still. (Fortunately, the Hambro article seems headed towards a keep, but with some administrators closing debates according to their whims instead of the discussion, e.g. determining any "no consensus" on any BLP as a "delete", I cannot be entirely sure.) It may be a statistical fluke that I have seen so many of these incidents lately, but I am worried that this is the symptom of a larger problem, namely that perfectly good-faith editors, on a way too superficial evaluation, are shooting the article first, without bothering to check for sources or possible improvements. I feel that such an approach will inevitably cause some very poor deletions. It is entirely plausible that Star Shipping would have been speedily deleted, had not the original author intervened with a {{hangon}}. Sjakkalle