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

[Thomas Dalton]

2008/12/4 Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> Tagged, but not deleted? Sounds like the system is working, then.
>
> Except that it was, apparently, only not deleted because the original
> author noted it and put a "hangon" in there. Had the author been away
> at that time, it might have been deleted by the next admin coming
> along. Yes this is speculation and yes I cannot assume whether that
> would have happened. But still, closing this as "Oh, but in this case
> it didn't actually *get* deleted, so move on" strikes me as a bit
> simplistic.

That's why we have hangon tags, though, isn't it? Sure, the system
isn't perfect, but until someone proposes an alternative that is
better I think it's good enough.