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

[The Cunctator]

I had to revert a deletion of an article about a guy who was involved in the
Jack Abramoff scandal. It's pretty sad.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Martijn Hoekstra
<martijnhoekstra at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Michael
> > Michael Bimmler
> > mbimmler at gmail.com
> >
>
> The admin reviewing it wouldn't only decline the speedy, but remove
> the speedy tag aswel. After that, it's no longer eligable for speedy
> deletion.
>
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